Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public high schools have begun to show an interest in teaching Russian language courses, Albert B. Lord '34,chairman of the Slavic Department, revealed yesterday...
...said that the Slavic Department has recently been consulted by high schools across the country about the possibilities of such a move. The department has never received such inquiries before this year, Lord stated. He felt that the awakening of interest in Russia undoubtedly results from the notoriety produced by the U.S.S.R.'s earth satellites...
...response to appeals from non-concentrators, the Slavic Department plans to offer a one year introductory course in Russian, covering the same material as Slavic Aab, but meeting only four hours a week. Such a course, added to the present intensive courses, would give far broader access to this ever more important language. Its consideration is an encouraging sign of departmental sensitivity to student needs and desires...
...Slavic Department should plan to offer the new introductory course in 1958-59, and should look to the day when "Govoritye po-russky?" is heard as often as "Parlez-vous francais...
Zenkovsky spoke to the Slavic Club on "Islam and the Soviet Union." There is a great danger, he asserted, that Marxism will fill the vacuum left by the disintegration of the Islamic religion as a social force...