Word: swahili
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...Faculty's desire to avoid adding elementary language courses to the undergraduate curriculum was the chief reason for its veto of the proposal to teach Swahili for credit, according to President Pusey...
...surprising and discouraging to learn that the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy has turned down a request for a Swahili course at Harvard. Surprising, because--all circumstances of the request aside--there is no reason why the University shouldn't teach a language as important as Swahili; and discouraging, because the sketchy arguments advanced by the committee against Swahili show a disturbing ignorance of why a great university teaches language in the first place...
...Swahili clearly falls into this last category. As the lingua franca of about one-third of Africa, it is important now, and it will become more important twenty years from now. Quite simply, there is no reason why the University should not provide a course in it, unless the CEP is out to prove what nobody disputes: that it is oblivious to the desires of Harvard's students, even when their requests are perfectly sound...
...pointed out that a quarter of Africa speaks Swahili - over 50 million people - and that many students unconnected with Project Tanganyika have expressed interest in the course for purely academic reasons...
However, Monro said there is a possibility that the University will finance a non-credit course in Swahili this Spring depending on the cost of such a project...