Bicentennial 'Grand Expedition' summer trips celebrate IU's leadership in international engagement
In the 1880s, half a century before most American universities started offering study abroad experiences, Indiana University students participating in "summer tramps" could catch a steamer from New York to Germany, tour Berlin, Dresden and Weimar, stop in Nuremberg and Munich on the way to Switzerland, travel by rail to Milan and Genoa, take another steamer to Marseilles, hop on a train to Paris and wrap up the summer with a week in England -- all for $300.