A M Withers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3763522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A M Withers |
| GIVEN NAMES | A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Withers |
| SIGNATURE | WITHERS A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Old versus New in Language Fields
Classics and the FL Program
Common-Sense Directions
Common-Sense Directions: How Words Fit Together." The Journal of Higher Education, 29(7), pp. 406–407
Common-Sense Directions
Our language
Some plain comments on education
On a universal language
There is perhaps no field of endeavor where more good time and brain-energy is being wasted than in the construction and promotion of an artificial common language for the world. Arguments have actually been set forth that a universal language (Esperanto, Interlingua, or some other) should be a required subject of study in secondary schools. Nothing is more absurd. It is difficult enough to keep the utterly essential great languages of our wester…
English and its allies
On Translations
For Educational Accord
T HE editor of School and Society has more than once expressed regret that the professor of education attracts perennial criticism in many quarters simply by reason of his happening to exercise his profession, a criticism blindly insensible to individual differences. I am disposed to sympathize with the editor's view. So far as I know, I have got on very well with professors of education, and I am well aware that there are many of them to whom ev…
On Reading and Writing
"War on "Language Teaching Goes to War
Undernourishment in English
IT IS my hope, as instructor in Spanish and French, that students who wish to thrive in language shall first take Latin, along with, of course, the usual contemporaneous ground courses in English. Then I shall hope that they will be reasonably equipped to know and love good English. In such prepared soil the modern foreign languages, with the demands they have to make for success upon student industry, undreamed of by the average man, can be succ…
The Latin Road is Best
Research Article| January 01 1943 The Latin Road is Best A. M. Withers A. M. Withers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1943) 42 (1): 54–58. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-42-1-54 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation A. M. Withers; The Latin Road is Best. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1943; 42 (1): 54–58. doi: https://doi.org/10.12…
Malnutrition in English
Professors and Their Association
Two Additional Borrowings from Petrarch by Gutierre de Cetina
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Two Additional Borrowings from Petrarch by Gutierre de Cetina
Malnutrition in English
Professors and Their Association
Undernourishment in English
IT IS my hope, as instructor in Spanish and French, that students who wish to thrive in language shall first take Latin, along with, of course, the usual contemporaneous ground courses in English. Then I shall hope that they will be reasonably equipped to know and love good English. In such prepared soil the modern foreign languages, with the demands they have to make for success upon student industry, undreamed of by the average man, can be succ…
The Latin Road is Best
Research Article| January 01 1943 The Latin Road is Best A. M. Withers A. M. Withers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1943) 42 (1): 54–58. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-42-1-54 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation A. M. Withers; The Latin Road is Best. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1943; 42 (1): 54–58. doi: https://doi.org/10.12…
"War on "Language Teaching Goes to War
On Reading and Writing
For Educational Accord
T HE editor of School and Society has more than once expressed regret that the professor of education attracts perennial criticism in many quarters simply by reason of his happening to exercise his profession, a criticism blindly insensible to individual differences. I am disposed to sympathize with the editor's view. So far as I know, I have got on very well with professors of education, and I am well aware that there are many of them to whom ev…
On Translations
On a universal language
There is perhaps no field of endeavor where more good time and brain-energy is being wasted than in the construction and promotion of an artificial common language for the world. Arguments have actually been set forth that a universal language (Esperanto, Interlingua, or some other) should be a required subject of study in secondary schools. Nothing is more absurd. It is difficult enough to keep the utterly essential great languages of our wester…
English and its allies
Some plain comments on education
Our language
Common-Sense Directions
Common-Sense Directions: How Words Fit Together." The Journal of Higher Education, 29(7), pp. 406–407
Common-Sense Directions
Classics and the FL Program
Old versus New in Language Fields
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