Word: elisseeff
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Work consists mainly in memorization, and Elisseeff advises everyone interested to begin in his sophomore year...
This is a field which wants graduate students, not undergraduate concentrators. Serge Elisseeff, head of the department, says that it is too difficult for anyone who has not had some previous background in Far Eastern studies...
...Elisseeff advises that anyone who later wants to study in his department should prepare himself with studies of Western culture first to have a basis of comparison...
...teachers in the department--Reischauer, Elisseeff, cleaves, Hightower, Young, and Ware--are experts in the field, and students now in their courses feel they are also excellent instructors...
Engineered by such men as Samuel H. Cross, professor of Slavic Languages, and Serge Elisseeff, professor of Far Eastern Languages, long experimentation has produced the method most suited to the Army's purpose. The requirements of the military for speed in teaching and the insistence upon the use of the spoken language called for a complete revision of the traditional methods of language instruction...