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East Leading Area In Language Teaching
NEW YORK, N. Y. — (IP) — A survey of 971 American colleges and universities reveals that the East remains a bastion of modern foreign language teaching, particularly in the numbers of different languages offered students. Of the top 11 collegiate language centers in the nation, six were found to be in the East, three in the Midwest, and two in the Far West.
Far in front is Columbia University where 41 languages were being taught during the 1954-55 period of the unique survey. Second and third ranking institutions were Harvard, teaching 26 different modern languages, and Yale, teaching 25.
The survey was conducted by the Foreign Language Program of the Modern Language Assn. of America which set out four years ago to make the most intensive language fact-finding survey in the history of the United States.
Some Offer None
Perhaps most startling of all was the fact that 38 institutions reported they offer no modern foreign language instruction at all, while 493—almost exactly half of the 971 reporting—said they offer no other foreign language instruction than in French, Spanish, and German.
The survey confirmed the fact that French remains the most favored foreign language in America. A total of 905 institutions of the 971 reported instruction in French. However, Spanish had climbed to a close second by the 1954-55 academic year, being taught in 867 institutions, a scant 38 schools behind French. German stood third with 825 schools, and Italian fourth with 212.
The influence of the Soviet Union's position in the modern world is clearly reflected in that Russian is now taught in 183 schools, making it the fifth-ranking modern language taught in the U.S. After Russian the number of institutions offering each individual language fell off sharply, Portuguese running a weak sixth with 69 centers, and Swedish seventh with 31.
The top 11 Centers
are Columbia, 41; Harvard, 26; Yale,
25; Pennsylvania and California, 24
each; Cornell, 23; Georgetown and
Indiana, 22 each; Washington, 18;
and Michigan and Minnesota, 14
each.
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Columbia offers, in addition to the major European languages, such tongues as Albanian, Bengali, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Hindi, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Azerbaijani and others. Harvard adds Icelandic, Slovene and others, and Yale has courses in Indonesian, Thai and Southeast Asian languages.
Pennsylvania gives Lettish as well as Tamil and Telegu, languages of the Indian Peninsula in Asia. Indiana adds Cheremis or Lapp, and Cornell puts in Algonquin, of the American Indian family of languages, as well as Catalan, Quechua and Pidgin. Pennsylvania probably has the distinction of teaching the only formal college course in Romany, the language of the Gvosies.
Ancient Languages Too
As to ancient or dead languages, the survey showed Latin, ancient Greek and the older forms of English, French, German, and Spanish offered frequently through the collegiate world. But it uneashed much evidence of a wide spread of unusual ancient or dead languages being taught.
These include such tongues as Akkadian, Aramaic, Assyrian, Avestan, Coptic, Demetic, Gothic, Hittite Hurrian, Oscan, Sanskrit, Sumerian, Ugaritic, Umbrian, and many others.
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Pradist Hutangura of Bangkok, Thailand, a teacher of pharmacy and physics, is making a short visit to the departments of pharmacy and physics at KU.
Transportation is always a major factor of concern to the student. It need be no longer. If you want to start a car pool or if you are looking for a ride home, there is a good chance that out of the 2,850 students attending KU, one is going your wav.
Hutangura, who has just completed two years of graduate study at Purdue University, is visiting colleges and universities in the United States before returning to Thailand. His tour is sponsored by the Public Health Service.
In a move to bring top professional assistance to schools of journalism from editorial departments of the nation's magazines, Wade H. Nichols, chairman of the Magazine Publishers Association's Editorial Committee, just announced that organization's affiliation with the American Council of Education for Journalism.
Mr. Nichols, who is editor and publisher of Redbook, named David Botter, assistant managing editor of Look as MPA representative on the Council. Theodore Weeks, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, will be MPA members of the Council's Committee on Accreditation.
The Council is a working team of educators and representatives of the mass communications industries. Its objectives are to interest promising young men and women of high school age in college journalism studies, to ensure that courses offered are adequate and practical, and to encourage graduates to seek employment in the magazine, newspaper, radio and television fields.
Student Attending GeophysicalStudy
A KU major in geological engineering who has just completed his junior year is one of 15, selected from 400 university students in the country, who is attending the first period of the student-training program of Geophyscial Service, Inc. Dallas, this week.
The Council, until now, has been composed of representatives of five newspaper associations, the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters, and three journalism associations. It is administered through the Department of Journalism at Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
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Lawrence A. McPeek, whose home is Winfield, is the student. This first week of the training program is an orientation period, in Dallas. Following this period McPeek and the 14 other students will work in the field for the rest of the summer. Dr. William W. Hambleton, associate director of the State Geological Survey has been invited to attend the geophysical school as an obsverd the first week. Experts from other geophysical companies will be present during the orientation period.
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For The 'Expensive Look'-
Prof Uses Gold, Silver In Framing Process
Hardening Layers Applied
The process is called water gilding. Prof. Green explained it like this:
A hand-made picture frame covered with gold or silver leaves gives a mark of distinction to a picture, believes Robert Green, associate professor of drawing and painting.
Burnishing is a process by which a smooth glossy look is given to the surface. To burnish, the surface is rubbed with an agate stone.
Five coats of gesso chalk mixed with glue are painted on a 3½ inch wooden picture frame. If the wood is to be burnished, all smooth areas are then sanded.
The silver or gold leaves are applied next. These leaves are about 3 or $ 3 \frac{1}{2} $ inches square and made of fine gold or silver dust pressed into flat sheets.
A soft brush is used to wet the bow with an alcohol and water solution. Water makes the bow surface sticky and alcohol speeds drying.
Three or four coats of red clay are then painted on the surface. This serves as a hardening layer. The surface is then sanded with very fine sandpaper which polishes and smooths the frame.
"It is better to let the silver frames sit until they begin to tarnish," Prof. Green said. "It takes the glare from the frame and gives it a tone that will add to a picture."
A fine brush is rubbed across an oily surface, so it can pick up the silver or gold sheets by touching the tip to the sheet. The sheets are then brought to the frame and are flipped onto it.
"The work is not time consuming," he said. "I can finish a frame in about eight hours."
Metal Flipped On Frame
Prof. Green said he was interested in making frames for his pictures because .it made the whole effect completely creative.
The silver leaves cost about 80 to 90 cents a book with 25 sheets in a book. Gold sheets cost $1.80 to $1.90 a book. It takes about 1½ books of metal to do a frame with a perimeter of 24 to 30 inches. It would cost about $150 to buy a similar frame, Prof. Green said.
Graduate Student Begins Field Work
Rutgers University agriculture department officials, who own the hen, refused to let her appear. They explained she would probably suffer stage fright and wouldn't lay an egg.
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Ottawa County has been added to the list of Kansas areas in which ground-water investigations are being made this summer, according to V. C. Fishel, in charge of the Federal and State Geological Surveys' ground-water division at KU.
Leslie Mack, graduate student in geology at KU the past year and a member of the Geological Surveys' ground-water staff this summer, has begun field work in Ottawa County.
The study is being done as a part of the cooperative ground-water program of the State and Federal Geological Surveys and the State Boards of Agriculture and Health in Kansas. Mack will write a report based on his study after field work is done and he has evaluated results of his investigation. Eventually the report will be published by the State Geological Survey.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.—(UP)= A leghorn named Meggi O'Day won the Hunterdon County egg-laying contest with a two-day egg-laying record and received a television offer.
Swifts, the most aerial of all birds, never alight on the ground unless hurt. They gather all their food and nesting material while flying, drink skimming over water and mate in mid-air.
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