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...varsity quintet will be the underdog tonight when it meets a strong Wesleyan team in Middletown. The Crimson will be seeking its first win of the year, having last, 51 to 47, to Amherst Saturday...
...Wesleyan boasts a veteran quintet that easily defeated Clark in its opening game, 78 to 53. The Cardinals are led by 6 ft., 5 in. center Don Skinner, who led the squad in scoring and rebounding as a junior last year. He plays the pivot position in Wesleyan's attack...
Harvard is behind because it never kept up. "We did not take advantages of the lessons learnt in World War II," Frohock says, "while such colleges as Cornell, Wesleyan, and Princeton did." Cornell, for instance, has an ambitious new program of language teaching which it started experimentation on as early as 1946. The question then must be: why did Harvard allow itself to become stagnated in an ivy-encrusted system first instituted by some English private school headmaster when it became evident that there were quicker and more efficient ways of learning a language...
Another facet of the new methods now being employed here is the use of the "machine system" (tape recorders). "We are starting this in one of our elementary French courses," Frohock notes, "but we are far behind such colleges as Wesleyan and Columbia. They have many of these essential practice laboratories, we have only one which has just been started this year." Professors Henry Hatfield and Harry Levin are not quite so enthusiastic on the subject of tape recorders, the former remarking that "we haven't gone overboard on machines, but we are waiting to see how they work...
Frohock agrees that the departments need more than 3 hours a week. "This is one of the reasons we are behind the other colleges," he adds. "Columbia has 5 hours a week, Wesleyan has six, and Princeton has six." In the accelerated Cornell system, the elementary language student spends eight hours a week studying languages, three in a "drill section," three in the lab, and two in lecture. These courses, however, count for double credit...