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...undergraduate affairs, Pusey cited the Glee Club's tour to the Far East last summer, Peace Corps activity, and Project Tanganyika, which sent 20 students to Africa last summer to teach...
...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...
Goldmark, who was leader of last year's Project Tanganyika which sent 20 students to teach English in Africa, began to work toward installing Swahili in the catalogue in November. Goldmark said he had "guaranteed" 25-30 students, and had found an instructor, a Tanganyikan graduate student at Boston College who agreed to give the course...
Goldmark remarked that next summer's project Tanganyika, which has already enlisted 16 volunteers, will not suffer much from the decision. A private course in Swahili will be arranged again this year, as it was last, with funds collected for the project. Even so, "it's a pretty crucial question - the scope of a liberal education...
...also a trend towards more international groups and towards more service projects, such as Harvard Undergraduate Teachers, Project Jarba, object Tanganyika, PBH Mental Hospital workers--all recent additions to college extracurricular life. This trend related also to the increased reliance in outside fund raising, said Monro...