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...Since the Chinese aphorisms of William C. Kirby gave way to the English expressions of Jeremy R. Knowles and finally once more to the anthropologist’s analogies of Pilbeam, the second-story office of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) chief has been without a permanent occupant...
When James F. Gilligan ’57 enrolled at Harvard as an undergraduate, he was set on becoming either a politician or a writer. He eventually graduated as an English Literature concentrator. But after graduation, Gilligan changed his career path—he decided to attend medical school, became a psychiatrist, and would devote the rest of his life to studying the causes and effects of violence and violence-related injuries...
...first hand. When the Iron Curtain fell, he was commander of a Soviet nuclear submarine. Today, he organizes joint sea-rescue exercises with France, Sweden and the U.S. as the head of the Latvian coast guard. "The changes of the past decade were very, very fast," he says in English, the region's new lingua franca. "They were completely unexpected...
Working with babies raised in two different language environments--one in which English was the only language spoken and another in which the parents used both English and French--the team of scientists played silent video clips of English- and French-speaking adults reading in each language. Babies at 4 and 6 months old noticed the difference in facial expressions when the language was switched, and paid more attention to the clips after such a swap than when all the readings were in the same language. By 8 months, however, only infants reared in bilingual homes retained the ability...
...refuse to learn Spanish. Should I immigrate to Canada, Australia or New Zealand? -Marjory Dutcher, PHOENIX[Laughs.] I get the gist of the question. It's true that we have, in many places, replaced English with Spanish. And I don't believe bilingual countries work very well. Because we are a diverse nation, we need something that holds us together. For us, that is the English language...