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Nouns and syntax are the fundamentals of any language, but they are hardly the totality. Under the present language program, too many courses seek only to enable the student to pass the College's minimum language requirement, chaining students to grammar drill and little else. A college language course even for beginners, should offer a perspective over more than irregular verbs. Unless a language is taught in the context of a foreign culture, its fundamentals are quickly forgotten, regarded solely as means to hurdle a requirement. Yet many College language courses, themselves with only the requirement in view, plod...
...plan never got off paper. Ahf became a weekly chore with lessons applied only to the next week's assignment. Section men in other G.E. courses have plodded through papers noting only the more flagrant deviations in syntax, spelling and style. Ahf instructors have divorced the content of weekly assignments from the students' range of interest and experience...
Paul Alciere '51 and Adorna Orlandi '58 expected to be tested on "Problems in Italian Composition and Syntax." But when they arrived in the examination room, they found that Professor Rigo Mignani had forgotten to write an exam for the course...
...essay by Merril O. Young '51 on Dr. B. F. Skinner and his trained pigeons. This should no doubt be of interest to Dr. Skinner if no one else. The style is shoddy, and the slapdash arrangements of sentences displays the typical Lampoon unfamiliarity with the basic elements of syntax. "The Cruise of the Escarole and Romaine," by Douglas B. Bunce '50 about a forty-foot pedal boat is equally badly written, but might be fairly pleasant if you owned a forty-foot pedal boat at the time. John H. Updike has flooded the issue with a number of poetic...
Confronted for example, with the declaration: "Je suis furleux," they refuse to bother filling out any syntax forms. Instead, Taylor draws a man bearing four mink wraps, and Pearson smoothy translates the sentence...