Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college trains the leaders of tomorrow." As objective fact nobody can quarrel with this assertion. Without the stigmata of a college degree you are nowhere and nothing in modern America...
...false alternatives: either, it implies, we must follow the Cornell system, or teach French, German, etc. as dead languages. We have managed to avoid both these extremes. (Even Cornell has recently modified its method to make it less flagrantly anti-humanistic.) Nor does anyone in the Division of Modern Languages, to my knowledge, believe in disregarding the "aural-oral" aspects. A synthesis is possible. In German A, for example, while we put great stress on speaking and listening, we manage to get the students reading rather difficult prose within a few weeks...
...last year or so, we have made certain real advances. Thanks to the generous support of the administration, Boylston Hall is being remodeled; most of the building will be reserved for the various departments of modern languages, and we shall have one of the finest language laboratories in the country. Various new courses have been introduced. We now have a coordinator in Germanics as well as in Romance; Mr. Lunt has long been in general charge of language teaching in Russian. Mr. Rogers is now teaching a course for future teachers of Romance languages which, though devoted to descriptive linguistics...
...feels that the Russian arts all froze at about 1923. Even the best motion pictures were little more than pale imitations of German experimentalism, in the 1930's. And the ballet, "while given lavish productions and excellently performed, is a little old-fashioned. Nothing modern--about 1910 in conception...
Madras has a relatively modern industrial and power structure left over from the days of British rule. Venkataraman is currently trying to take advantage of a large deposit of bauxite in the area...