Word: whatmough
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Freshman Cross Country--Minor Sport Numerals, 1956--Edward P. Carter, Joseph D. French, James A. C. Gerry, Roger L. Gregg, Joshua J. T. Whatmough, Arthur A. Wils, Kenneth G. Wilson, James V. F. Hoagland...
Visiting the University on a State Department grant. Ferand met with professors I. A. Richards and Joahua M. Whatmough, both advocates of the European system of teaching languages in secondary schools...
Speaking of Whatmough's recent plea to push language instruction back into the secondary schools, Ferand said. "The difference seems to me to lie in the fact that in the United States you are not specializing when you go to college, whereas we in France specialize in the Colleges...
...Whatmough defended his letter to the Times yesterday, saying that if the colleges did require a language for entrance, "the parents who pay the taxes would see that their children would be ready to go to college...
...Whatmough's letter also attacked the teaching system on another point. It said "there is the expensive paraphernalia of teaching elementary languages in college, employing a large number of young men who often see no future before them and, therefore begin to feel frustrated...