Word: welled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student in an atmosphere of the language from the very first by use of a recorded master voice and let him absorb the language gradually as does a child. This experiment rapidly expanded, however, with the start of the war. The Armed Services had to teach foreign languages--both well and quickly. Thus, the Army Specialized Training Program was established, by which draftees learned new tongues in a matter of weeks and not of years...
Stein has been more concerned with a reorganization of elementary German courses. A professor at Columbia until a year ago, Stein headed their exceptionally successful modern language program, so well that Levin deems him "the best man in the country for teaching beginning German." He teaches two sections, one in German B and one in German C, and an upper-level course; he also heads a group of five instructors and fifteen part-time assistants ("all in training to become language teachers") concerned with lower-level German instruction. Stein came to Harvard convinced of the value of the direct method...
Repetition enters into the classroom as well as into the language lab. After all, the exponents of the oral-aural method state, a child learns his language habits only through constant exposure to and practice of a single tongue. The child does not think consciously, "Does this preposition take the dative case? Is the definite article placed before or after the past participle? What is the gender of this noun?" Rather, he learns almost instinctively what is correct and what is not. And it is precisely this sort of semi-innate knowledge which the direct method seeks to inculate...
Coach Dick Colman has the proper personnel. Tailback Hugh Scott, though not exceptionally fast, has proved an extremely powerful and canny runner as well as a capable passer. At present he is third in the league in total offense with 358 yards...
...tailback, the strong man of the backfield, normally throws 90 per cent of the Tiger aerials as well as performing much of the running. For a change of pace, though, Iseman will take the ball, fake a reverse, and throw deep to Ed Kostelnik, second All-Ivy choice last year...