LIVING TONGUES
Sir E. Denison Ross, the distinguished Orientalist, speaking from the chair at the annual dinner in London of the Modern Language Association, said: "No. greater service can be rendered to the inhabitants,of this country than to encourage them,to study the living languages -are spoken just-over the .^ ~~~'- giving this encouragement the Modern Language Association is conferring one of the'greatest blessings and privileges and one from which much happiness will spring." Mr.^G. N. Ager deplored the disproportionate number of scholarships given in classics as compared with those for modern languages. A year ago at Cambridge the .proportion ,was 'approximately seventy.to twenty/ ' '
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Evening Post, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 3
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101LIVING TONGUES Evening Post, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 3
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