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Who is to Speak for English?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Francis Keppel*
Affiliation:
U. S. Commissioner of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Extract

Men create institutions to do those things together which they cannot do satisfactorily alone. This of course is why there are learned societies. It must be a matter of particular pride to President Nicolson that the Modern Language Association of America, from its beginnings in a group of forty scholars on the Columbia campus more than eighty years ago, has grown to approximately 15,000 members. In its growth, it has performed a service for scholarship and education in foreign languages and in English which leaves the Nation in its debt.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1937

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References

An address given at the General Meeting on English in Chicago, 29 December 1963.

1 Copies available from the National Council of Teachers of English, 508 South Sixth Street, Champaign, Ill.