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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Columbia has introduced a course in Japanese in its curriculum. Russian will soon be taught in Seattle, "the American gateway to Russia." Portuguese is the last to break into the circle of college-taught languages. The significance of this sudden influx of new tongues is that foreign languages are no longer considered cultural studies, but are taking their places among the practical arts...
...meet the demand of men who intend to enter business houses in foreign countries, conversation courses have been instituted at Harvard in German, Spanish and French. But these very courses are allowed to be over-run with formal grammar and written translations. The conspicuous characteristic of such courses is the students' silence. Usually the conversation in the particular foreign language is limited to the professor's monologue. The mistake lies in the impossible attempt to weld both practical and cultural aims. Since poetry is not taught in conjunction with plumbing, why should art be combined with the language of foreign...
...real. It will in most cases work itself out instinctively without the definite purposing of university authorities. But Samuel Hill definitizes and accelerates it by founding a chair of Russian at the American gateway to Russia. It is through such movements that the growth and staying power of our foreign trade expansion is to be assured. Chicago Evening Post...
...with a view to the definition of an American policy which shall be a contribution to the peace and better government of the world. It believes that international peace may be secured only by a process of continual readjustment, and by the growth of democratic control of governments and foreign policies. It is composed of men of widely varying beliefs and welcomes the fullest expression of opinion. It invites all members of the University who are, or desire to be, informed upon the great questions involved in the cause of world-organization to join its ranks...
Victor Chapman, who died fighting in the Foreign Legion, was one of the greatest of these...