Word: slavic
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John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, and David E. Bynum '58, instructor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, are among 11 scientists awarded fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies. The accompanying grants, subsidized by IBM, are for "experimentation with the use of computers as an aid to research in the humanities...
...tall stranger with a flowing beard and erect military bearing rode into the Siberian outpost of Krasnoufimsk on a white horse. He carried his right hand on his hip in the manner of the late Czar; he spoke fluent French and a kind of Russian that was half church-Slavic, half Latin; he carried an icon with the initials A.I. The peasants began to wonder if this might not be Alexander the Blessed. When the stranger, who gave his name as Fyodor Kuzmich but could produce no papers to prove it, was sentenced to 20 lashes for vagrancy, a strange...
...Slavic S-150: The course examines Russian literature from Dostoyevsky (whom Vsevolod Tsetchkarev loathes) and Tolstoi (whom he adores) to the present. Tsetchkarev is a popular lecturer, and his course has had a reputation...
...present distinction in teaching. One single tenured person in charge of all the language courses in a department provides the continuity and unity which are essential in the early stages of language instruction, he explains. The University has established Co-ordinator of Language Instruction positions in the Romance and Slavic Languages and Literatures also. The only other University in the country to have a comparable position is Columbia, Stein says...
Horace G. Lunt 2d '41, who serves both as chairman and as co-ordinator of language instruction in the Slavic Department, has developed no teacher-training course. The department has instead planned more meetings for teaching fellows next year in hopes of strengthening and co-ordinating the elementary teaching program...