isa-normaladvance-1909-00035

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE35and combined with as many wide streets asany inland city. The rest was postponed tofulfil an engagement at Oxford, England,where the representative of I. S. N. S. joinedProfessors Davis and Johnson of Harvard,Brigham of Colgate and Fenneman of Cincinnati, in giving a course of lectures on the geography of North America to about 200 Englishteachers. They were the students attending thesummer session of the Oxford UniversitySchool of Geography and were spending threeof their four or five weeks vacation in strenuous work in the field, laboratory and lectureroom. No more delightful audience ever assembled and the American lecturers receivedmost appreciative and responsive attention.Ten days were devoted to a coach and carriage trip through the Shakespeare country,Warwick, Kenilworth and Stratford, down thevalley of the Wye with its intrenched meandersand slip-off slopes, along the coast of NorthDevon and Cornwall, over Exmoor, Dartmoorand the plain of Devon to Exeter and so backto London. No country seen during the summer excelled these in varied interest for boththe physical and the literary geographer,—localities made real to unnumbered Americanswho have enjoyed Lorna Doone, Westward Ho,the Children of the Mist and The Return ofthe Native. Porlock Hill, Oare, Badgeworthy,Lynmouth, Bideford, Clovelly, Okehampton,Cawsand Beacon, Chagford, have becomehousehold words in many homes.The North Sea was again crossed to theHook of Holland and a few days were spent inthe dignified shades of The Hague, and alongthe busy canals of Delft, Rotterdam and Antwerp. A week in Paris, the Magnificent, formeda fitting climax to an all too short and hastyreconnaissance of some of the most interestingproducts of nature and man. In spite of stormand fog, the American liner, St. Paul, landedher passengers in New York on time, and whenthe class in Geography VIII assembled afterchapel on Monday, September 28, their teacherwas there to meet them.The Progress of EsperantoEditors Note: The article which followswas written by one of our former students, andsets forth clearly the general principles of theworld language, which no doubt will be ofgreat interest to most of us:By way of an introduction to this littlearticle it may not be out of place to drop aword or two as to what Esperanto is.Esperanto is a new, auxiliary languageformed by the ingenuity of one mans brain,Dr. Zamenhof of Warsaw, Russia. It was notintended to displace any existing language butsimply to form a sort of international code forthe inter-communication of the nations of theworld. For this purpose it must be more simple, more flexible, more easily learned than anyexisting language.This latter was the most difficult of allothers to overcome and at the same time themost important. In this present day of whirlwind progress, particularly among the Englishspeaking, we have no time to take up a difficultsubject unless we can see in the dim, distantfuture where it will net us dollars and dimes.With our thousands of square miles of territory, with millions about us speaking Englishwe do not feel the need of another language asdo our European neighbors. All Europe witha population more than eleven times that of theU. S. and Canada has not an area equal to theU. S. Yet, how many languages are spokenthere? We cannot even hazard a guess. Suchcountries as Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, and the principalities of Montenegro,Roumania, Bulgaria and Servia can scarcely besaid to have a language they use the languageof the dominating country. The Swiss speakthe four languages of the four countries sur-
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