LANGUAGE RECOMMENDATION

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

It is true that the abolition of the B and D courses has been recommended by the Department, but the reason for the measure is only that according to information received by both the students and instructors, these courses did not fulfill their purposes of equipping the student with an oral command of a foreign languages.

The instruction in the Bab and Dab courses will be re-examined and an attempt will be made to heighten the level of achievement in these courses. Students who wish to acquire an oral command of the languages will be seriously urged to select Bab and Dab. Your headline should have read, "Department revises and puts greater emphasis on oral languages classes."

I must stress once again that the advocated reforms are at present only a recommendation which the Department of Romance Languages wishes to make and is subject as all other recommendations to the approval of the Faculty. Robert L. Politzer