Word: oral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Packard recently revealed the inadequacy of the Harvard speech curriculum before a speech conference, as reported in the April 14th CRIMSON. An examination of our status quo in speech is in order. Five speech courses are available now--three in public speaking, one in dramatic interpretation, and another in oral interpretation, and another in oral interpretation of literature. If we assume these are properly taught, two questions are left. Are there other aspects of speech for which courses are needed? Are there enough classes to handle all the students who need speech training? I believe that both questions must...
...clubs argued a case of conflicting laws in two states, Florida and a mythical "Commonwealth of Ames." The question involved whether an oral agreement not to change a will, which was legal when made in Florida, should be invalidated in "Ames" where the agreement was not legal...
...true that the abolition of the B and D courses has been recommended by the Department, but the reason for the measure is only that according to information received by both the students and instructors, these courses did not fulfill their purposes of equipping the student with an oral command of a foreign languages...
...instruction in the Bab and Dab courses will be re-examined and an attempt will be made to heighten the level of achievement in these courses. Students who wish to acquire an oral command of the languages will be seriously urged to select Bab and Dab. Your headline should have read, "Department revises and puts greater emphasis on oral languages classes...
...principal cause of the realignment, Politzer explained, was mounting evidence that three hours a week is not enough to teach an oral language. "One of the problems in language courses at Harvard," noted Politzer, "is that instructors have only three hours of contact with students each week, whereas other institutions like Princeton and Yale have five or six hours. Our students are more on their own as a result...