Language Instructors To Meet at Columbia

Members from all of the University's modern language departments will attend the 73rd annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in New York City. Columbia University will be the host for the conference, which will run from Saturday, Dec. 27, until Monday, Dec. 29.

The expected 4500 delegates at the meeting will discuss subjects ranging from the "aims and methods of medieval translation," to the "significance of science fiction," according to a Columbia news release. Language teachers will convene from all parts of the United States.

One of the main speakers at the seminar will be President Emeritus James B. Conant, who will address a general assembly on the topic, "Modern Foreign Languages in the High School Curriculum." According to Miss Marjorie H. Nicholson, chairman of the conference's arrangement committee, Conant's speech is of particular importance because of "the pyramiding belief that the teaching of modern languages is as vital to America's future as the teaching of science."