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...William Berrien, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and a former head of the department, and Andre Morize, professor of French Literature, inspected Cannon House one snowy day in 1946 with these aims in mind. The Modern Language Center is Professor Berrien's child; he started it and, as chairman of the Center's administrative committee, has been the gilding hand behind its activities and improvements. A former teacher at the University of California, Professor Berrien has been associated with the Rockefeller Foundation in New York and presently holds a permanent representative post on a UNESCO committee. This last position...
...specific application of the now famous "student apathy to the field of Romance languages and literature, was definitely and positively stated by Chairman William Berrien, who pointed to the "lack of interest on the part of the students themselves. The apathy of many students, and their unwillingness to work toward getting beyond the spoon fed stage of education is a discouraging aspect of the problem...
...problem peculiar to his special field, Professor Berrien continued, is the difficulty of securing sufficient personnel even for the course offerings in the field. But a problem definitely not peculiar to Romance Languages is "the lack of interest on the part of the students themselves in undertaking any additional activity requiring time or attention on their part...
...Berrien also gave assurance that there was no tightening of the requirements contemplated by the modern language departments as a result of the Faculty ruling. He cited extreme administrative difficulties and insufficient objectivity as the main reasons for the dropping of the reading knowledge tests...
...vote of the Faculty, rather than tightening the language requirement, has enabled students to have more frequent and considerably fairer opportunities to meet the requirement," Berrien stated. Placement Tests will be given twice each term--at the beginning and at the end--whereas the old tests were only offered once...