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Such a pin would have a design like that of the seal of the association which appears on the cover of HISPANIA. In order to get bids from a manufacturing jeweler, it will be necessary to know the approximate number who would buy such a pin, and the price members would be willing to pay. Those who are interested will please communicate with the secretary-treasurer. DR. ALFRED COESTER, 110 East 184th Street, New York City. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, Of HISPANIA, published six times a year at Stanford University, California, for April 1, 1919. Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Aurelio M. Espinosa, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the editor and publisher of the HISPANIA, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in Section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business manager are: Publisher, The American Association of Teachers of Spanish. Editor, Aurelio M. Espinosa, Stanford University, California. Managing Editor, Aurelio M. Espinosa, Stanford University, California. Business Manager, Alfred Coester, Brooklyn, N. Y. 2. That the owners are the members of The American Association of Teachers of Spanish: President, L. A. Wilkins, New York, N. Y. Treasurer and Business Manager, Alfred Coester, Brooklyn, N. Y. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None. 4. 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Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of August, 1919. [SEAL] (My commission expires February 14, 1923.) WALTER ROGERS. HISPANIA VOLUME II November, 1919 NUMBER 5 THE SPANISH PROGRAM The progress of Spanish in our schools has been greater than its best friends could have predicted half a dozen years ago. It is becoming popular in the high schools and is receiving a measure of fair treatment as a subject worthy of acceptance among college entrance requirements. Its commercial importance is recognized and its value in fostering closer relationships among the American republics is favorably regarded. Under such conditions, some of us are inclined to sit back and watch the movement with satisfied unconcern. The feeling that a time-honored law of physics will not only preserve but even accelerate the motion is common. Now that we have a following, it may be thought that we can safely confine ourselves to our classroom schedule and let things take their course. Such an attitude, however, is nothing short of suicidal in view of the motives which underlie the teaching of languages in the schools. No matter what the weight of the pecuniary benefits derived from foreign languages may appear to be, there are other far more decisive grounds which determine the secure position of languages as school-subjects, and those grounds deserve the more attentive study in that they are, so to speak, intangible and psychological. Unless a solid foundation of those intangible reasons can be laid for Spanish,-paradoxical as this may sound, and laid in the public mind, the question as to whether Spanish should be taught outside the commercial schools will always have force. In the early part of the nineteenth century, prominent colleges such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina dropped French from the curriculum after a trial of a few years. That it was somewhat later reinstated, goes without saying, but the significant fact is that it was done away with for a space. The basis of this action must have been sentimental and psychological rather than practical. The feeling of schoolmen toward the classical languages must have constituted a contributory cause, also. An analysis of the present extreme popularity of French and of the former high tide in the fortunes of German will demonstrate that the practical reason assigned for the teaching of modern languages is the first one slighted and most easily neglected and that the intangible motives are the really vital factors. The commercial argument has never been pushed as far with respect to French and German as it has been with respect to Spanish. The mainstay of the well-wishers of French has been the cultural importance of that language, and the stock in trade of the friends of German has consisted of a mixture of cultural and scientific elements, the latter predominating quite noticeably. However, numerous other considerations have been back of those most commonly adduced, particularly in connection with the widespread teaching of those languages in the high schools. For we must remember that the vast majority of our high school students never get to college, never enter on specialized scientific work, never open a foreign book or read a foreign paper during the rest of their lives, and rarely derive any cultural benefits worthy of the name from their study of foreign languages. Granted that a foreign language should be taught on account of its broadening effect and as a counterpoise to those natural impulses of provincial superiority and arrogance which characterize insulated nations, it was a foregone conclusion that French should become our favorite foreign language. The liberalizing spirit of France has permeated the western world from time immemorial. French intellectual freedom and artistic preeminence have been constant whether under monarchical or republican auspices. In addition, the stylistic qualities of the French language combined with 1 C. H. Handschin-The Teaching of Modern Languages in the United States, (Bulletin of the U. S. Bureau of Education, 1913), p. 19. |