think that our plea might carry more weight if we can show that the training is needed for teachers of French as well as of Spanish. More and more candidates for the teaching profession are specializing in French and Spanish. That ill-sorted pair, French and German, are being gradually divorced. She is indeed a rara avis, a veritable phoenix, who can speak and teach equally well French and German. The best work in the preparation of teachers of Spanish is now being done at summer schools, which are gradually increasing their short six weeks' term to eight weeks and more. With their casas españolas and their practical courses they have accomplished more than any other agency in giving our teachers an opportunity to acquire a little knowledge of spoken Spanish. Their ridiculous feature is the large elementary class as contrasted with the small advanced class, showing that too many Spanish teachers are made in six weeks. The committee senses the fact that it is futile to recommend that the teacher go to a Spanish-speaking country. He knows he ought to go; all the high priests of modern-language instruction unceasingly and eloquently urge him to travel. Perhaps by dint of constantly seeing the admonition in print he will, goaded to desperation, mortgage his house and automobile, pack his valise, and gobuilding castles in Spain. Your committee recommends that this association father a plan for the exchange of instructors and students between our institutions of learning and those of Spain and Spanish-America. Our colleges offer many European traveling fellowships. It is our duty to suggest that some of these be diverted to Spanish-America. The committee in the course of its investigations finds that conditions in modern-language teaching are not now normal. The study of Spanish is still in its infancy in this country, and has not yet been established on solid foundations in many of our high schools and colleges. Our opportunity for constructive work is here now. We offer this report as a modest beginning to be undertaken by our association. If we are to obtain more recognition for Spanish in the field of modern languages we must fight for it; if we are to fight, we must have no weak points in our armor. We must have no mercy for the deliberately incompetent teacher; we must prepare more thoroughly the candidate for the teaching of Spanish. Above all, we must agree on a homogeneous and constructive program for the study and teaching of Spanish in high school and college. HONORARY MEMBERS The Committee on Honorary Members appointed on the date March 20, 1918, submitted the following report to THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF SPANISH at its Second Annual Meeting, held in New York City, December 28, 1918: Despite the fact that Article III, Sec. 3, of the Constitution does not say that Honorary Members must be foreigners, the committee is of the opinion that only foreigners should be so honored, since all Hispanists living in this country might properly be expected to be regular members of the Association. We have, therefore, drawn up a list of thirty representative Hispanists chosen throughout the world outside our own borders, and we respectfully move that they be duly elected. JOHN D. FITZ-GERALD, University of Illinois, Chairman. CAROLINE B. BOURLAND, Smith College, Northampton, Mass. ELIZABETH CASEY, Wilmette High School, Wilmette, Ill. J. D. M. FORD, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. REGINALD R. GOODELL, Simmons College, Boston, Mass. JOEL HATHEWAY, High School of Commerce, Boston, Mass. University of Texas, Austin, Texas. John Marshall High School, Richmond, Va. Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. ARTHUR L. OWEN, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. ROY EDWIN SCHULZ, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. HOMERO SERIS, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. GEORGE W. H. SHIELD, Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, Cal. Sacramento High School, Sacramento, Cal. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. Lake View High School, Chicago, Ill. University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. Fullerton High School, Fullerton, Cal. CHARLES P. WAGNER, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mick LIBRARY OF THE L. A. WILKINS, Member Ex-ONIVERSITY LIST OF HONORARY MEMBERS 1. ALFRED MOREL-FATIO, Paris, France. 2. JAMES FITZMAURICE-KELLY, London, England. 3. RAMÓN MENÉNDEZ PIDAL, Madrid, Spain. 4. ERNEST MÉRIMÉE, Toulouse, France. 5. FRANCISCO RODRÍGUEZ MARÍN, Madrid, Spain. 6. RAFAEL ALTAMIRA Y CREVEA, Madrid, Spain. 7. RICARDO PALMA, Lima, Peru. 8. ANTONIO PAZ Y MELIA, Madrid, Spain. ↓ 9. ADOLFO BONILLA Y SAN MARTÍN, Madrid, Spain. ✓ 10. EMILIO COTARELO Y MORI, Madrid, Spain. 11. CAROLINA MICHAELIS DE VASCONCELLOS, Oporto, Portugal. 12. ✓ 13. v 14. BENEDETTO CROCE, Naples, Italy. GEORGES CIROT, Bordeaux, France. FRANCISCO A. DE ICAZA, Mexico, Mexico. 15. ARTURO FARINELLI, Turin, Italy. 16. RAYMOND FOULCHÉ DELBOSC, Paris, France. 17. MIGUEL LUIS AMUNÁTEGUI Y REYES, Santiago, Chile. 18. WILLIAM E. PURSER, Dublin, Ireland. OF CALJU 19. ERNESTO NELSON, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 20. JOSÉ TORIBIO MEDINA, Santiago, Chile. 21. JUAN GIVANEAL Y MAS, Barcelona, Spain. 22. ALBERTO MEMBREÑO, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. ✓ 23. ANTONIO GÓMEZ RESTREPO, Bogotá, Colombia. v 24. LUIS A. BARALT, Havana, Cuba. 25. MANUEL SEGUNDO SÁNCHEZ, Caracas, Venezuela. 26. JUAN ZORRILLA DE SAN MARTÍN, Montevideo, Uruguay. 27. José A. RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA, Havana, Cuba. 28. ALBERTO NIN FRÍAS, Montevideo, Uruguay. 29. RICARDO ROJAS, Buenos Aires, Argentina. EMANUEL WALBERG, Lund, Sweden. ✓ 30. The preceding list was unanimously approved and these thirty scholars were thus elected Honorary Members of the Association. |