Word: berrien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winthrop: Berrien Anderson, stroke; Bill Dewey, 7; Don Pitkin, 6; Bill Appel, 5; Bill Apthorp, 4; Paul Sheeline, 3; Miles Wambaugh, 2; Sam Tucker, 1; Sam Leland...
Vermont's course will be based on a teaching method developed by Dr. William Berrien of the Rockefeller Foundation. Without overemphasizing vocabulary or ignoring grammar, Dr. Berrien lets his students live the language, urges them to relate it to their special interests: science, anthropology, economics, etc. He lets them read and talk about what interests them most, guides them to the best literature in their particular fields of interest...
...Berrien doubts whether U.S. colleges and universities will ever accept this intensive method of teaching foreign languages, but he thinks they ought to. Says he: "If we are now lacking engineers, agronomists and economists with a knowledge of Spanish or French, it is not altogether the fault of the U.S. people who can't learn languages' but also partly of educators who have failed to relate language to the activities and interests of men in different fields of work. The materials used heretofore in language teaching have been too exclusively limited to fiction, a good portion...
Experiences of a summer spent travelling through the interior of Peru, voyaging by cance and balsa wood rafts as far as the Amazon basin and visiting the ruins of old Inca villages sacked by Pizzaro, were related yesterday afternoon by Berrien Anderson, Jr. '42 and Manuel I. Prado '42, in the lecture room of the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...Jungle of Peru" will be the subject of a free public lecture, illustrated by slides and colored motion pictures, to be given by Manuel I. Prado '42, and Berrien Anderson Jr. '42 this afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration...