Smith College - Smith College Yearbook (Northampton, MA)

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LANGUAGES GERMANIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Standing—Paulsen. Vise her, Graham. Seated—Sommcrfeld, Ascher. Page twenty While walking along the thoroughfares of our cosmopolitan campus, we hear Buenos dias”, Bonjour” and Buon Giorno” almost as often as Good morning”! It isn’t enough these days to be up on our English vocabulary; we must know our foreign dictionaries too. Hats become sombreros”, girls arc chicas”, a book is das Buch” and we arc all interested in the joic de vivre”. Smith is definitely language-conscious, and takes pride in her three language houses, her junior years abroad in Paris, Geneva, Zurich and Mexico, and in her extensive language courses right here. CLASSICAL LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Tibbetts, Duckett, Vaughan, Wright. Missing—Shields. FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Sturm, Murdoch, Peoples, Guict, Leland, Gasool, Van Eerde, Benjamin. Missing—Cattancs, Imbault-Huart, Saleil, Bourgoin, Cook, M. and Mme. Guilloton.

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SPEECH DEPARTMENT Sickcls, Laughton, Arbenz. PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Row I—Colville, Crook. Row 2—Ainsworth, Brough, Mancini. Row )—Jennings, Chin, Sweezey. Row 4—Blanchard, Thorsen, Page, Goss. Row 5—Dragon, Goode, Ryder. Row 6—Benson, Delano, Wallace, Russell. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Seated—Fisher, Hill, Hornbeak, Randall, Chase, Eliot, Drew. Standing — Wilcox, Lincoln, GrifTeths, Sonthoff, Lieder, Wilcox, Bailey, R. G. Davis, Williams. Missing— H. Davis, Withington, Dunn, Arvin, Aaron, Starr, Pamp, Ziclonko. What do we learn at Smith? . . . With practical application of education and child study at the Elizabeth Morgan Nursery School, we will be able to cope with Junior’s tantrums . . . English courses give us a speaking acquaintance with playwrights, poets and novelists ... If it is muscles and peerless health we seek, the physical education department offers both competitive and individual sports ... As students of speech we no longer tremble at speaking after dinners or before national conventions . . . These arc a few of the things we learn . . . EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Clark, Rees, Wagner, Wakeman, Bragdon, Rose, Benner, Warner, Carle. Missing—Darby, Yeomans. nineteen

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.............................................................■ ■ Cantarella, Young, Rookc. SLAVIC AND PORTUGUESE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE Savitzkaya, Muchnic, Pastuhova, Kridl. If a student wishes to grasp an alien tongue in a hurry, she tackles a lid course which gives her two years’ training in one. Language clubs also help to make the student more familiar with the language and customs of foreign countries. There is a growing interest in Russian, the baby” of the language departments. Three years ago Smith was the first women’s college in the United States to recognize Russian as a major. The general trend of language-teaching at Smith follows the method used in the Army, which emphasizes conversation. This procedure enables the student to learn the sound of the language and so to avoid such blunders as asking for a soup in a Spanish restaurant and getting a cake of soap! tnfIk- SPANISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Casalduero, Levy, Kennedy, Zapata, Torres, Mancro, Sylvia, Estcrmann, Navarro, Lopcz-Rcy, Whitmore. Missing—Patt, Pierce. Page tuswty-one