^{Note 1 in page 548} To quote the MLA Newsletter, i, ii (May 1969), 1, a welcome indication of hope in the MLA and the incentive for submitting this paper. The references to “English professors” throughout the paper are for brevity, and not for exclusion of modern language professors from the challenge.

^{Note 2 in page 550} The points presented here rather informally would not have been produced or put together at all without the stimulation provided by a discussion group at the August 1969 meeting of the Society for Religion in Higher Education. Professor Henry Clark of the Department of Religion, Duke University, organized the morning Group on “Change in Professional Associations,” for which this paper was drafted. The other resourceful participants were: William Moore, Carnegie Commission on Higher Education; Anne Murphy, Dept. of Political Science, Florida Presbyterian Coll.; Edward Ordman, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Kentucky; Dan Rich, Dept. of Political Science, MIT; and Paul Ward, Executive Secretary, American Historical Association.

^{Note 1 in page 558} The various phases of the project have been amply chronicled in the seven Newsletters of the Portuguese Language Development Group, issued in Austin, Jan. 1964 through May 1967. PLDG Newsletters Nos. 1 and 2 (Jan. and Sept. 1964) were reprinted in Hispania, 48 (May 1964), 379–381, and No. 4 (Dec. 1964), 819–823. See also Henry W. Hoge, “The Portuguese Language Development Group,” Linguistic Reporter, 7, ii (1964), 1–2; and an article with identical title by Fred P. Ellison, in MLJ, 49 (1965), 433–434, See also Ellison, “Portuguese as a Foreign Language,” Portugal and Brazil in Transition, ed. R. S. Sayers (Minneapolis, Minn., 1968), pp. 75–89, 342, and “The Teaching of Portuguese in the United States,” Handbook on the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese, ed. D. D. Walsh (Boston, 1969), pp. 235–249. The trial edition of Modern Portuguese has been reviewed by C. Malcolm Batchelor, in MLJ, 51 (1967), 506–508.