Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squad of CRIMSON reporters, instructed to investigate the linguistic attainments of Harvard Seniors, yesterday invaded the Yard dormitories. Over 100 men were visited and interrogated on their abilities to read French and German and their opinions of the value of the existing Harvard language requirements. When the reporters gathered later in the day to tabulate their results and to compare the expressions of opinion they had, heard striking varieties of attainment and of sentiment were revealed. Former travellers in Europe, concentrators in modern languages, Latin scholars, and the like were factors in a complexity which made definite conclusions...
...concentrating in modern languages or that they were honor students. About an equal number were willing to stake themselves on an adequate knowledge of one language but confessed to ignorance of a second. A few said that they knew both French and German slightly but neither well enough to read them with ease or pleasure. At least a dozen of the Seniors interviewed declared that their linguistic capacities were limited to a smattering of one language, in several cases not event that much knowledge being professed. All of these men had passed their language requirements...
Some of the views set forth can be best expressed in the terms of the reports compiled by the CRIMSON investigators. The following may be taken as typical of three important sections of opinion: "Can read French adequately and feels that his slight familiarity with the mechanics of the German language, while not sufficient to make reading easy, is worth while. Feels that even an elementary knowledge of a language adds not a little to one's culture...
...read Lavisse and Rambaud's "Historie Generale" at the rate of 20 pages an hour. Doesn't know any German to speak of but insists that his French is adequate...
...examination papers of the scholastic tilt on April 30 have been read and graded. The results are being tabulated, and will also be ready for announcement by Friday...