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...course was suggested by a group of undergraduates, some of whom were connected with Project Tankanyika, which for the second summer will send students to Africa to teach English. Peter C. Goldmark '62, head of the Project, said that he had found 25-30 prospective students and an instructor...
...Peter C. Goldmark '62, chairman of Tocsin, was gratified by the support which Morgenthau had volunteered. He said his group was presently concerned with organizing transportation for Harvard's contingent, and establishing relations with the Administration...
...Goldmark, who was leader of last year's Project Tanganyika which sent 20 students to teach English in Africa, began to work toward installing Swahili in the catalogue in November. Goldmark said he had "guaranteed" 25-30 students, and had found an instructor, a Tanganyikan graduate student at Boston College who agreed to give the course...
...Goldmark remarked that next summer's project Tanganyika, which has already enlisted 16 volunteers, will not suffer much from the decision. A private course in Swahili will be arranged again this year, as it was last, with funds collected for the project. Even so, "it's a pretty crucial question - the scope of a liberal education...
...Goldmark said he "understood the Faculty's point of view" and thought they might be right, but felt that the course should not be rejected simply "because it has immediate application" and because it is different from the other language courses and unreconcilable with "an ivory tower approach...