New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1927, Page 3

.. TEACHING SPANISH Prof. Guilliano Explains It Advantages for Business | BY PROF. ANDREW GUILLIANO \ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1927. 1 T | the consequent acquisition of new; Spain and Spanish life are col- | territory scemed to act as an e)‘e-|ored with the romantic tinge by ear- opener on the magnates of the com-!lier writers; Spain is yet in the mak- ! mercial circles in the United States. |ing. Right at our door is Mexico, | they must turn to the great unde- worthy of serlous study. | veloped areas of South America 3| Brought closer to us by the Pan- |a fleld of investment for their ama Canal are the great nations of | money and a market for their goods. south America, a field of unlimited | The first step to that end which | promise, suggested itself was simple: MOTe| The siudy of Spanish in this coun- people in the United States muUStiyry gnoylq serve to unite in common | learn the Spanish language. AS 2|ponqe the people of the United | result of this conviction came the gy os 2iy o that territory stretch- ; ish into (Head of Spanish Department, |Seneral introduction of Span ®'ing far to the south, New Britain High School) , i!‘f‘: ’""“"’.a‘;’ ;"h”",’ :e(s;hex::::‘?};‘America. | comparatively [ABs - continued Prok: | 'While it is unfortunately truej After the Spanish-American War, many Americans were brought into contact with~ Spanish | and the attention of others was di- |opening of the school year of 1912, actual | Spanish in the high schools is indi- cated rather definitely by the fact | anish was t the| life | that Spanish was accepted a! begins at Niagara Falls and ends at | the as | by 124 from a lfst of 203 colleges of rected to Spanish-Americans o . never before. At the close of the|the country in satisfaction of their :Da:flflh language and lfle of lhe‘lm;mm N war, the United States remalned in|entrance requirements. By 1914 Spanish people can serve no better| g |the American people were being cnd than to dissolve the mist of Rouge urged by editorials and by such offi- ignorance which prevails and to | clals as the commissioner of educa- bring to the knowledge of all the| {tion to glve more attention to|truth about the Spanish-American slowly | Spanish America, not only to the world. language, but to a better acquaint-| Since 1910 something has PROF. ANDREW GUILLIANO possession- of Porto Phillppines, and continued for some | vears'to exert an indirect controli)e,ging institutions which are tod . over Cuba, all of which were In-|,pering nstruction leading to the habited chiefly by Spanish speak-|joctorate in Spanish are Columbia, ins people. The acquisition of this|yrvarg, Yale, Pennsylvania, Ohio. new territory standpoint. has become a turing, beyond the needs of own people. certain its hand for opporiunities 1 national boundaries. to adapt himself to the needs | Pt 5 % 5 e T - which will be worth consuiting if ! Spanish-America, the American nw-f""x“"“‘“z“‘f A “:}‘:,‘;“;:{‘,; the TASEMENT SHOE STORE ~ |you are among those who are chant had forfeited most of the | tHFELCE 00 SRETES SHOE M erom NOW AT BROAD STREET urranging for a trip to Europe. trade of these nations to the Ger-|United Stat .lh: Suropean and the | yyih¢ Basement Shoe Store of 204} Among the recent ones isthe follow- o Ans Svho Were untining inlthainlets| P o 8oUrcss e HEUIODEAn g Main str has temporarily re-|ing by an experienced travelor. forts not only to deal with the Span-| ish speaking merchant in his own | but to study and meet I language, sult, not figure commercially, to any ex- uth Ameri panish-American tent in S The § Nore: king new flelds, and that demand | .o mmercial value, and as 120 of 410 s in part met by acquired from Spain. norance, laziness or mere inability | wants and to send him when he wanted them. 1 in 1898, the United States did | texts used in other schools. done in this direction, and the next |children i h students ance with the geography, history, literature and life of the people. By 1915 the number of pupils pur- | suing the study of Spanish was over ; 33,000, The entrance of the United States {into the World war had a marked in to Spain, and studying the life and literature of Spanish America at the | same time that they become famillar | Magellan, and with that knowledge {1918 was 1,000 per cent, 400 out of | the lengthening of the course offered caused not only a marked increase | in the size of college classes pursu- ing the language, but a greater do-| mand for advanced work and wider Rico and the| o oznition of Spanish as a subject for graduate study. ~Among the ful in general, to know their sense of fineness and of courtesy—that should sur the teaching of ted States. Therefore Spanich should be a to an understanding of Spain and of Spanish thought and culture, both in Europe and in America. jwork. v be one of the aims of | the Spanish in Orleans of .2, ithe lowest it {months and flood stage. DIABETIC DEATH RATE e, 1L, June 1 (A—The dla- death rate is falling precipi- Iy in Massachusetts for all per- under 50 vears of age, is sta- | tionary for old men, and reached its ! peak for white women in 1 clared Dr. Eiliott P. Joslin, clinical professor of m-dicine at Harvard university befors the Illinois Medi- cal society toda was timely, {rom & |\ficpigan, Chicago. Wisconsin, Min- The United | 1oota, Tilinois, California, Stanford . rich nation, | ang Tixas. ) As 10 of the 40 offices maintainad 1 was ati,,the United States Department of vond the|conmarce are in places in which Business Was|goanien is the only language of Capi new territory | oreign cities where the state depart- Through ig- | {OTSi8! | ment is represented are in Spanish- speaking countries, the need for such | spanish-American. The teaching at Harvard and somo of the other eastern Institu- Foods |tions has determined to a large ex- re.|tent the type of instruction and the moved to the Rialto theater build- ing 26 Broad street where thay will| Franck—After dispose of their surplus stock—advt. | bonding, soam STERILIZATION BILL . 1L, June 1 (A—Ster- ons with hereditary was voted by the to & ier has a his Al a Spain has a iiterature which pre- nts unlimited flelds for linguistic well as historical rescarch. n trade. war g and [as ' don WANTED Boys 14 to 18 Years to Earn $8,000.00 to $18,000.00 a Year Pleasant, Beneficial and Healthful Employment Amidst Beautiful Surroundings. Good Opportunity for Ambitious Boys. FOURTEEN YEAR OLD BOYS EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD BOYS HEN a 14 vear old boy quits school to go to work, he will reach his highest earning power at 30. Between 14 and 18 his total earnings will be about $2,000. His total earnings from 14 to 60 will be about $45,000. If, instead of going to work at 14, this same boy will go through high school, he will then start to work at 18. At 25 he will be earning more than the untrained man earns at 30, and he will reach his own highest earning power at 40. Between 18 and 60 he will earn about $78.000.00. This is-$33,000.00 more than the untrained man will earn in the same period. will earn about $78,000.00. boy will take a four year college course, w after he will earn more. will earn in the same period. If a four year high school course will enable a man to earn $33,000.00 more than he could earn without it, his four years-in high school will have paid him $8,250.00 a year. without it, the four year college course year. were decades will probably see Span- |camp until the men had provided the United States @ place for them. The first party going to South America as well as Will be sent to the region around | Simmesport which got comparative- {1y little water from the Bayou Des Glaises breaks. | influence on the teaching of Spanish. with that of the mother country.| At Morgan ‘[ In many schools German was The study of the languag: o S dropped entirely; in others the and the ideals of the 80,000,000 to 'he predicte course was shortened. |the south may bring the masses in |their The results of the first yvear of the United States to realize that. Ithe war shows that the results in| America extends to the Strait of e TE3Hew was unchanged registered a f bringing the has been for scveral small made at the to remain at City, the flood would rise ther gs to only 1.8 feet wandering, ing or roving HEN an 18 year old boy quits school to go to work, he will reach his greatest carning power at 40. Between 18 and 60 he If, instead of going to work at 18, this same hen he reaches 28 he will be earning as much as the high school boy earns at 40, and there-- His total earnings from 22 to 60 will be about $150,000.00. This is §72,000.00 more than the high school boy If a four year college course will enable a man to earn $72,000.00 more than he could earn will have paid him approximately $18,000.00 a The very best job that a 14 to 18 year old boy can hold is that of Student in a high school, a university, a college or technical school. Noother job will pay him $8,000.00 to $18,000.00 a year. The money necessary to pay for the boy's education can readily be assembled by maintaining a savings account with THE CoMMERCIAL TrusT Company where interest is compounded quarterly. Open Saturday Evenings 7—9 Build and Help Build TRUST CO. NEWBRITAIN gy The used above were taken from a compilation made by Dean Everett W. Lord of Boston University {rom teports of the Mas- sachsetts De Industry, an irtment of Labor and from the records of and graduates of Boston FLOOD WATERS ARE SLOWLY REGEDING New Orleans Reports Lowest Point in Months New Orleans, June 1 (® — With Spanish the flood menace concentrated in a area in the south central part of the state, re- |that many of the merchants of the lief workers today turned their at- United States believe that America |tention to the problem of getting refugees back to thelr lands ithe Rio Grande, the study of the and giving them a new start in Baton camp yesterday to start a| first party of 75 men back into tha2 Bayou Des Glaises area, emerging from the murky | which s covering of water which has hid- been | den it for a month. The women and the residents o, the life, | Who have remained in the face of wore raising furniture a little higher on affolds owing to a warning from ! e weather hurean here yesterday from to 3.3 feet above their present 500 secondary schools had sub- may come a decper appreclation of il '8 © ol Y {level efore the crest of the flood | stituted Spanish for German: and in | the cuiture which Spain transplant- | “C 8 BUOTE (1) TEEE € T8 SaRE | the Boston High school, Spanish had |ed to American shores. e e been made compulsory. . To understand our neighbors, to :;,,mng“and leratviere prepn‘,m; { The general introduction of Span- appraise at its truth their apprecia- ";o i TR e O AR [1sh into the secondary schools and !tion of art, of music, of the beauti- | i o #F O FTREE B5 SROD B8 U |dried sufficiently for them to start The situation on the lower river The gauge at New drop 18.8 above | jAt Your Library As cach year finds more and more | tourists and students planning | trips to Europe during the summer, | there is a steady call for guide books {and travel bocks of interest to these v | sroups. The library has a collection for All About Going Abroad, H. 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