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Show Wrong Method of Teaching. Consul Paul Nash, of Vwilcc, writes: "Hundreds of w ell-educated Americans annually pass through Venice and, although al-though probably nine tenths of them have had seveial years of Instruction In a European language, not one-tenth one-tenth aro capable of speaking a dozen connected words of anything but English. Eng-lish. Even college graduates, fresh from prize-winning In French or Gorman, Gor-man, aro gcneially unable to speak either language, although capable of writing nn excellent thesis on their history, philology, syntax and literature. litera-ture. This Is the result of teaching French and Orman In much tho samo way thatUfi and Greek aro taught" |