Word: student
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Council of Learned Societies attempted to find a better way to teach esoteric languages, such as Mongolian or Hindi. With a paucity of teachers understanding these tongues, the Council hit upon the use of tape recorders and a direct approach to the language: Submerge the student in an atmosphere of the language from the 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...
...master voice," free of imperfections, is recorded on a single master tape, which is then played on one of the four machines in the front of the language lab. Students sitting in their individual, sound-proofed booths hear the master voice through their earphones, and then repeat into the microphone what they have just heard--or thought they heard. Both master voice and student voice are recorded, so that, in a later playback session, each pupil can hear his mistakes and act to correct them...
...focus on critical issues has been characteristic of Council reports of the past half year. Since the HSA report, which was crippled by a biased committee, the Council received a report on NSA and two on NDEA. The NSA study devoted itself to the problem of how a representative student organization could be achieved, without ever really discussing the central issue of whether such an organization is desirable...
...Student Council committee yesterday recommended a three hour extension of Friday night parietal rules and a concomitant limit on the use of afternoon hours. While urging that existing afternoon hours remain the same, the committee proposed that no student be allowed to entertain women in his room more frequently than three afternoons a week...
Although no student has yet cast a ballot, eight new members of next year's Student Council have already won their seats by default, the Council elections committee disclosed yesterday. The deadline for all nominating petitions was last Wednesday...