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Show SHALL UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE BE TAUGHT ? WASHINGTON. Aug. 2S. Shall naval officers be taught Esperanto, the universal univer-sal language? The naval academy board is considering consider-ing a letter of William BatT of Worcester, Mass.. who says that with a daily lesson of one hour for a period of Ave months the midshipmen at Annapolis would readily read-ily acquire a complete knowledge of Esperanto Es-peranto and would be able to read, write and speak it fluently. Mr. Baff suggests this to the board only as a supplementary language. |