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Initiating the series will be Ivor A. Richards, University professor of General Education, whose subject will be "The Roots of Western Thought," which is the basis of the new General Education course in the Humanities. The program will run from 9 to 10 o'clock...
...IVOR GRIFFITH President Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science Philadelphia...
...trick is a mild, little, wild-haired British professor, I. A. (for Ivor Armstrong) Richards, the Western Hemisphere's No. 1 apostle of Basic English. Says he: "It takes only 400 words of Basic to run a battleship. With 850 words you can run the planet...
Thus far only men have been designated for this honor: Werner W. Jaeger, Roscoe Pound, Ivor A. Richards and Sumner H. Slichter. According to President Conant, only lack of funds prevents containing expansion of the program
Stressing the need for an international language, Ivor A. Richards, University professor and collaborator with C. K. Ogden on Basic English, yesterday predicted that when the world adopts one common second speech, "it will probably be Basic plus." The lecturer from Magdslen College, Cambridge, England, pointed out that the English language was the most widely used in the world, and that Basic was an "escalator" into English...