Smith College - Smith College Yearbook (Northampton, MA)

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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

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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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 ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT Rom, Willett, Bacon. Orton, Lowenthal, Douglas, Mrs. Taber. Mining—Mr. Taber. Problems Up and down Green Street this year, where the Smith girls sported the new look” in blue-jeans, you could hear an occasional departure from the familiar and timeless conversation of dates, clothes and head colds. Frequently the topic would turn to current events, for each Smith student was conscious of what was going on in the world around her. Whether her particular interest was history, economics, sociology, religion, philosophy or government, she found ample opportunity to keep up with the times. Under the direction of the college and the lecture committee, speakers came to Smith to bring us up to date on current events. Jat . ' ' GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT Standing—Brigantc, Ranney, Peltason. Seated—Holden, Smith. Mining—Carter, Aaron. SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT Standing—De Nood, Bates, Salvador!. Seated—Marsh, Epstein, Bryson. Page. Page ticent'a-two