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BU Yesterday
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Week of 9 October 1998 |
Vol. II, No. 9 |
BU Yesterday
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The 4,657 international students from 151 countries enrolled in the fall 1998 semester are an omnipresent and valued component of life at Boston University, a component that is tempting to take for granted. International students were no less valued in the 1950s, but they were few enough in number (392 in 1954, for example) for their presence to be something of a novelty, as this September 1952 photograph suggests. We know only that the two foreign students are posing with their new textbooks at a forerunner of the BU bookstore. The picture was probably used as a back-to-school publicity shot. Boston University Photo Services |
