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These words, coming through the earphones in the rejuvenated basement of Boylston Hall, represent dual revolutions in Harvard's teaching of modern languages which will reach their culmination this year. A new method and a not-so-new building combine to give the College's undergraduates a far better chance to learn to speak foreign languages well than at any time in the past, and represent an unmourned break with previous tradition...
...first part of the equation is Boylston Hall. This building, resembling the Charlestown jail more than a modern center for instruction in languages, has been completely reconstructed to give the modern language departments an opportunity to utilize the "oral-aural," "direct," method of teaching. Once a drafty museum of natural history, once the finest chemical laboratory in the United States, and once the headquarters of the Yen-Ching Institute Boylston has undergone another complete transmutation...
...Loeb Drama Center should not be a school, yet should serve an educational purpose, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and member of the Faculty Committee on Theatre explained last night...
...Loeb Drama Center will be the subject of a Student Council forum in the Adams House Common Room at 8 p.m. tonight. Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will be among the four panelists...
Undergraduates and Cambridge dowagers filled Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon to hear Archibald MacLeish discuss "Words as Signs." The Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory is giving a series of public lectures on "Poetry as Experience...