Word: programers
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...very first by use of a recorded master voice and let him absorb the language gradually as does a child. This experiment rapidly expanded, however, with the start of the war. The Armed Services had to teach foreign languages--both well and quickly. Thus, the Army Specialized Training Program was established, by which draftees learned new tongues in a matter of weeks and not of years...
...heed of the Army's very successful experiments, and launched its own intensive courses in modern languages. Classes met eight hours per week in new atmosphere--English was not spoken in the room. Mechanical devices and "native informants" (graduate students from foreign countries) helped perfect pronunciation. By 1950, the program had proven so successful that Cornell adopted it outright. Columbia soon followed, and rapidly developed a comparable program which gave it, along with Cornell, the finest elementary language courses of colleges in the nation...
Stein has been more concerned with a reorganization of elementary German courses. A professor at Columbia until a year ago, Stein headed their exceptionally successful modern language program, so well that Levin deems him "the best man in the country for teaching beginning German." He teaches two sections, one in German B and one in German C, and an upper-level course; he also heads a group of five instructors and fifteen part-time assistants ("all in training to become language teachers") concerned with lower-level German instruction. Stein came to Harvard convinced of the value of the direct method...
Next fall, as part of its $53 million Program, Princeton will open its first "social quadrangle"--a block-square complex of five dormitories (housing from 270 to 300 students), a central dining hall, library and social facility (in place of the traditional eating clubs). Although it is limited in size, the quad represents a significant departure from the Princeton tradition of dormitories and private eating clubs...
...will play it by ear." If enough sophomores in the next five years show interest in the quad plan, three additional dormitories (housing another 270 or more students) and perhaps even a second dining hall--although funds for these Phase II projects are not included in the $53 million program...