Word: swahili
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...University may offer Swahili as a half-course for credit this spring, the suggestion of undergraduates concerned with Project Tanganyika and other African programs. Dean Monro said yesterday that there was a good chance the course would gain Faculty and CEP approval, if a Department willing to sponsor it can be found...
...said he had never before heard of a course initiated by undergraduate action. The students, headed by Peter C. Goldmark '62, arranged an independent Swahili course last spring under a Boston University anthropology professor. Financed completely by Project Tanganyika and Crossroads Africa, the course had a single section of about 30 members, meeting twice a week...
Attack. Long before dawn one morning last week, a company of Indian troops backed by Irish armored cars surrounded the Elisabethville post office' held as a communications center by a Tshombe garrison. In French and Swahili, demands were megaphoned that the garrison yield the building. The answer was the rattle of machine guns. The U.N. returned fire, and for two hours streams of red tracer bullets crossed each other in the predawn darkness. An Indian soldier was hit in the face; he screamed. A Katanga gendarme, hit in the belly, fell from a second-story window, picked himself...
...stood among the rosebushes in the White House garden, eventually meandered through the French doors leading to President Kennedy's office. The girls were bright in their flowered summer dresses, the men were turned out in their Sunday best, and everyone was smiling and chatting amiably -sometimes in Swahili and Twi. Inside, the President and his brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, looked for all the world like fathers of the bride as they greeted each of the young guests. The occasion was a farewell party for 80 young volunteers (average age: 25) bound for teaching and road-building jobs...
...thing is so disproportionate as to be nonsensical," editorialized the Wall Street Journal. "What person, except perhaps the very young themselves, can really believe that an Africa aflame with violence will have its fires quenched because some Harvard boy or Vassar girl lives in a mud hut and speaks Swahili...