Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Racial policy in South Africa," as viewed by the present government, is the subject of tonight's panel in New Lecture Hall at 8:30 p.m. sponsored jointly by the Law School Forum and the U.N. Council. W. C. DuPlessis, Ambassador to the U.S., will speak, followed by a panel discussion led by three faculty members...
...trouble before." But besides this obvious answer, there is one other somewhat nebulous reason for the college's emphasis on old systems. Harvard's approach to language teaching has always been on the "literary" level. That is to say, when a professor was teaching a class how to speak French, he was really teaching his students about France. The goal of any elementary language course here was to teach the student how to read the language, both so he could delve into the literature and the culture of the particular tongue, and more specifically so (if he still...
Harvard, while recognizing the merits of this system, is not willing to go this far. "We are planning more and more emphasis on speaking," Frohock says, "but the fact remains that while my barber may speak French better than I do, he hasn't got a single intelligent thing to say in it. For myself, speaking is only important, because it helps you to learn to write the language." The Romance Language Department's plans for the next few years then definitely do include a new emphasis on oral teaching, but not to the exclusion of the cultural and intellectual...
...through the routine steps of learning another language is nothing but a crashing bore. If I really want to learn another language, he can say, I can go over to France or Germany, spend a summer there, and by the time I get back, I will be able to speak rings around my less fortunate companions in French...
...tonight, Stephen T. Riley, director of the Massachusetts Historical Society, will speak on the Society in Holmes Hall, while Kenneth Burke will speak on a "Dramatistic Calculus" in Emerson 237. Friday evening at 8 p.m. Professor Norman A. Malcolm of Cornell will lecture to members of the Philosophical Club on "Ontological Argument" in Emerson...