| Summary/Abstract |
Writing for the New York Times Magazine in 1928, journalist Eunice Fuller Barnard described the dramatic expansion of transatlantic student travel from the United States to Europe in the years since the First World War. Whereas “gilded youth used to go by twos and threes with parents or tutor,” she wrote, now American youth “gilded and ungilded, moves Europe-ward in mass formation, sometimes hundreds in a party, with all the enthusiasm of a college cheering section.” There “are so many bureaus of student travel,” continued Barnard, “that they are constantly getting their mail mixed up.”1 With established tourist companies adding student departments and “student tour-conducting” appearing “almost over night” as a highly-profitable vacation occupation, Barnard knew that in the 1920s American student travel abroad was big business.2 And the man credited with beginning it was the 1924 Yale graduate, James Stanton Robbins
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