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...time the financial situation became so severe that academic requirements were drastically relaxed. On July 18, 1780, a student arrived in Cambridge for the first time and paid his $300 tuition. That afternoon he passed oral examinations in seven subjects and was awarded his A.B. degree on the spot...
...primary target of the intermediate and upper level courses is to give students a practical command of the language, according to Rivers. For example, the recently created Spanish Cd, "Spanish Oral Survival Course," was designed so that "if a student were helicoptered into Spain tomorrow, he or she could communicate," Rivers explained...
Stashed along with Widener's dusty tomes is a unique collection of literature which contains few written words--the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature...
Through the 3500 aluminum disks and about 22.500 texts, which document the epic poetry of Yugoslavia, Albania and Bosnia, it is possible to piece together the origins of the earliest oral literature which survives today--the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer...
Parry chose the western Balkans for study because he saw a clear analogy between the oral literature of that region and the epics of Homer, which were passed down through word of mouth...