Word: ans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before the Brown football game this fall, somebody walked off with a small sign reading "Modern Language Center" and bearing an arrow pointing towards Frisbie Place. This bit of Pilferage made the University's most inconspicuous building even more inconspicuous.
Actually, the Modern Language Center's official address is 5 Divinity Avenue. Frisbie Place is an alley that runs behind the Germanic Museum off Divinity Avenue and the language center, housed in a large wooden frame structure that used to be a family home, is the only building on it...
During the last war, from 1942 to 1946, the building was used by the School for Overseas Administration, which trained men in foreign languages (mostly Chinese and Japanese). It also housed a group of chaplains. After the war, Cannon House served briefly as a fraternity house and then as an...
In an informal and comfortable atmosphere, and through a series of individual and group activities, students were to be encouraged to explore the meaning and significance of these cultures on their own initiative.
The resident tutor, and the man chiefly responsible for the Center's everyday operation, is Robert F. Leggewie, a teaching fellow in French. He and his personable wife, who serves as his secretary, live there along with an invaluable housekeeper. Mr. Leggewie, coincidently, also taught on the coast but did...