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...Madero, supported Victoriano Huerta as a better friend of U.S. busi ness interests. When Madero was killed, Zapata and Pancho Villa joined with Venustiano Carranza in a new revolt. In Washington Woodrow Wilson realized Huerta could not maintain stability and switched U.S. support to Carranza, saying. "I intend to teach the South American republics to elect good men." A U.S. fleet invaded Veracruz in 1914; Carranza won. but repudiated the U.S. intervention. Nevertheless, two years later, Wilson ordered General John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing into Mexico on a fruitless pursuit of Pancho Villa after Villa had raided Columbus, N.Mex...
When English Teacher George N. Allen quit his job at Brooklyn's slum-sick John Marshall Junior High School and unmasked himself as a crusading New York World Telegram & Sun reporter (TIME, Nov. 24), he sweetened his exposé with the promise that the $490 he had earned teaching would be turned over to a teachers' retirement fund. But the New York City Board of Education refused to act like a grateful teacher. Last week, while Allen continued to churn out his lively eyewitnesser under such headlines as "HEY, TEACH . . ." is SIGNAL FOR BEDLAM and SLOW PUPILS CHEATED...
There is no reason this system would not work here as the University has a wealth of foreign graduate students to choose from who would probably be quite willing to teach (or supervise) a class in their own native tongue. This system, however, is only effective in a class run by the direct method, and the college would have to revamp some of its courses to satisfy this...
Rogers, who vehemently opposes the Cornell method of learning languages (i.e. machines, separation from culture), says that "We must reward the younger men. They must have an in- terest in the country whose language they are teaching." When these men move on to higher levels, Rogers advocates a system of rotation, whereby every faculty member, regardless of rank, will be required to teach an elementary course for a specific amount of time. The quality of teaching would then be raised and the teaching fellows would not be mired in the lower levels...
...most important problem facing this college when it has to teach a student an elementary foreign language is a dilemma that is not Harvard's alone; it is the problem of every college in the country that teaches a foreign language. It is a simple matter of will...