February 11.
Or the many conferences which are held at Home in the first weeks of a New Year iti worth while to spare more thai a passing thought for the Modern Language Association which has lately hela its annual meeting at Queen's College in London. It has been said that "we are all educationalists nowadays": and if the epigram together a statement of fact, it is true to say that the internationalizing of life in all countries has created such an interest in the question of instruction of modern languages as never has been known before. The recent decision of an English firm to reserve a part of business hours in which its employees may learn German is significant: still more so is the increased respect, gratefully noted in the president's speech, which is accorded to the work of the Modern Lan; Association. Recognition is being received from the Headmasters' Conference, "oldest and stateliest jof our associations", as Mr. Storr
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