Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English Department is considering tightening foreign language requirements for graduate study, according to a recent letter sent to the Board of Tutors by Walter J. Bate, Chairman of the English Department...
Bate urged the tutors to encourage a student to know at least two foreign languages by the end of his senior year "if there's even a fair chance that he has graduate study in mind...
Hanfmann was not going to prepare a "treasure hunt," however. "Due to rising nationlism, almost all the young Near Eastern countries rich in as yet unexplored cultural objects do not allow foreign excavators to export their resources. The days of booty grabbing are over. We have returned to Sardis to find new areas for the building of history. It has been undertaken in the interests of scholarship alone...
...enormous size of the urban aggregation of Lydian Sardis suggests a rapid state of organization in the metropolis. After a decline during Roman occupation, the large city revived, as determined from the Byzantine shops of the fifth century A.D., and remained prosperous until foreign invasions in the seventh century. In these shops, the Sardis exploration has created a new and important area for economic historians...
Eleven other students received Sophomore Standing, but not from the College Entrance Examination Board. These men entered from foreign schools and colleges, and none live in the Houses...