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...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 not meet Berrien until both came east. Following his graduation from the University of Southern California, he taught there and at La Maison Francaise of Mills College (Oakland). There has been one other resident couple prior to the Leggewie...
...program: professors, student organizations, publishing houses in this country and abroad, university presses, national and international institutions whose programs stress the furtherance of intellectual cooperation, alumni, and other persons who, having visited the Center, and became interested in its work, seek through donations to increase its facilities. Berrien estimates that 8,000 to 10,000 people, not different ones of course, passed through the Center last year. The Center boasts one of the finest foreign grammar text libraries in the country and teachers from nearby high schools and colleges frequently visit the Center to select the book they plan...
...Berrien has noted what he calls a "vicious circle" in the club meetings themselves: outside speakers do not stimulate student participation; on the other hand, some people will not attend a meeting unless they can listen to a speaker. Berrien feels this often becomes a fourth classroom lecture, which is exactly what he tries to avoid. He supposes that some students are "organically spectators," but he is still anxious to strike a successful balance between speakers and student discussion groups, and he would like to introduce more round tables and debates...
...Modern Language Center is its informal atmosphere, and this is what Professor Berrien has been striving to maintain since 1946. His colleagues have often questioned him about turning some of the rooms into classrooms (as it is now, no classes are held at the Center; groups are brought over from time to time to use the facilities) but this would destroy the informality. By the same taken, any "expansion" of the present setup would defeat the purpose of the Center...
Does Professor Berrien have any long range plans for his project? Naturally he is limited to some extent by the lack of funds; but the Modern Language Center was conceived as a student activities center for one small segment of the University. The clubs that hold their meetings there now formerly met in the Houses, which meant a constant moving around. Berrien calls Phillips Brooks House "too somber." The Center is bound to remain just that so long as Berrian, an interesting and interested man, is in charge. He wants nothing big. His crying need at the moment is merely...