Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determined not to re-elect Dr. Huxley to his $15,000-a-year job. To replace him for a six-year term they chose, by a vote of 30 to 3, 46-year-old Jaime Torres Bodet, Foreign Minister of Mexico. Energetic, curly-topped Torres Bodet, who speaks French, English and Spanish with equal ease, is a poet who published his first works 'at the age of 16, but is no idle dreamer...
Last week an English translation of Valéry's essay on Degas appeared in U.S. bookstores (Degas Dance Drawing; Lear, $5). It pictured the 19th Century master as coolly and deftly as Degas used to picture worn little ballet girls...
...been a source of primitive pleasure to many American writers who never came within smelling distance of the Charles. But in this case the journalistic sneerers have poked deeper than the ribs. They have suggested that Harvard and much of the country no longer know how to use the English language...
...neatly avoid the problem by handing newcomers a placement test, repeated every term, and allocating students to classes of varying difficulty on the basis of their sources. The result is that these students move just as fast as their abilities permit. An identical system would go far to help English A. If a placement test were substituted for the Anticipatory--perhaps something along the lines of the late-lamented College Board Achievement Tests in English--it could split the course into far more interesting and efficient sections of comparable skill...
Theodore Morrison, now heading English A, has run up against the placement idea before. He rejected it because of the "unfairness" in making section men teach class of inferior students, and in addition felt a "general hunch" that the whole thing would not work. Neither argument is particularly valid. Instructors in French and Spanish teach ability-grouped students all the way up from the "inferior" level; everybody seems quite happy about it. And it is somewhat silly to retain the present system on what Morrison admits is "just the simple feeling that a placement won't be any good." Instead...