UNIVERSITY LECTURER
OVERSEAS TOUR MADE The view that modern language courses in New Zealand institutions were overburdened with philology, which was regarded overseas as a study only for graduate students, was expressed by Dr. A. C. Keys, lecturer in modern languages at Victoria University College, Wellington, who has returned after a three months' visit to Canada and America. He left for Wellington by the limited express last night, accompanied by Mrs. Keys. "It is iniquitous to inflict the study of philology on second-year students," said Dr. Keys. "It is wrong to expect persons without some linguistic background to undertake such studies, and I intend to see what can be done to solve this problem. In one Canadian university, I found it was taught only to third and fourth-year_ students. In another university it is taken by students doing their M.A. course, while at a university in Winnipeg it is eliminated."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23504, 15 November 1939, Page 12
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150UNIVERSITY LECTURER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23504, 15 November 1939, Page 12
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