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Claremont's 38 students present a wide range of problems-from the "homusicku" (homesick) Japanese boy who cannot eat fried eggs, to the Indian who refuses to shower in the nude ("I shall wear my swim suit"). For such students, Claremont found that drills on grammar and pronunciation were beside the point. "In six weeks," says Dean Emmett Thompson, "we've got to give them a complete course in Americana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Anti-Homusicku | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...Claremont thinks, the 38 should be able to get along in the U.S. at the end of the course-and by the time they hit their permanent campuses, there shouldn't be a homusicku one among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Anti-Homusicku | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

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