Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been the rising strength of the Flemish-speaking people. From 1831, when Belgium gained her independence from The Netherlands, until 1914. Belgium's rulers considered the nation an outpost of France. French was then the sole official language. Flemish, as closely akin to Dutch as American is to English, was the language of servants and peasants...
...University's demonstration elementary school, pupils are taught typewriting from grades five to eight as a means of improving their English, spelling and com position. Teachers announced that children learned typing twice as fast on the Dvorak keyboard, were able to exceed 50 correct words a minute (par for professional: 70 words...
Fernand Baldensperger, professor of Comparative Literature and Chairman of that Department, who served in English, French and German universities before he came here, preferred the system used at the University of London where "a special committee, including three 'powers,' authority, election, selection, is formed each time for any nomination of professors...
...Dean Chase and President Conant, the Radio Workshop is now well launched on its official career. In the last fifty years no Harvard extra-curricular project has given such promise of future significance; incorporating as it does some of the best brains--faculty and undergraduate--in the University's English, Music, Government and Physics departments, it presages an era of Harvard leadership in the development of radio technique which may well parallel the ascendancy of Professor George Baker's 47 Workshop in the field of the drama...
Students, working with faculty advisers will presumably accomplish these ends. Some will author scripts aided by members of the English Department, others will study microphone technique, the mysteries of auditory perspective, the effects of studio acoustics, and the reactions to propaganda. For the present, a majority of the programs will be recorded, although certain specific presentations will be heard over WIXAL. This is the group's avowed intent--to combine the theoretical with the practical. By coordinating the newer theories of auditory perception with actual practice, the Workshop may well take the helm in radio's future progress...