ABSTRACT
When University of Delaware French professor Raymond Kirkbride set sail for France with a group of eight students on July 7, 1923, there was no question that the men would be spending an entire academic year taking courses alongside French students at the Sorbonne in Paris. The newly established junior year abroad was thus named with good reason at a time when international travel was not only time-consuming, but also reserved for an economically elite segment of the U.S. population. Even 80 years later, despite the decline in popularity of the classic year overseas, the majority of U.S. students who studied abroad did so for at least one academic term (a semester or quarter).
