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Albright was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on May 15, 1937 to Josef and Anna Korbel. As the daughter of a Czech diplomat, Albright got her first lessons in diplomacy very early on. She also got her first experience with tyranny when Adolf Hitler and the German army overran her country and her family fled to England...
Mary M. Farbood '97, who passed out of the language requirement as a first-year and took German A this year as an elective, says she would support this proposal...
Princeton requires undergraduates to take three semesters of Spanish, French or Italian or four semesters of German, Latin or a non-European language...
Knowles was born near Oxford, England in 1935, the son and grandson of Oxford University professors. World War II hit Europe before he was five, and Knowles has early memories of 1940's Battle of Britain, hiding in cabinets and cellars as German bombs fell on his hometown...
...field, where they will be instructed to wait for the sound of a horn. When it sounds, a torch-bearing stranger, dressed in medieval garb, will arrive to blindfold the young Schuler and lead them to the Marchenwald (fairy-tale forest), where they will be treated to a medieval German play...