CONTENTS

From the Editor: An Anniversary

The Importance of Foreign Language Study
Leon E. Panetta

Foreign Languages and the Humanities in the 1980s

The Uses—or Uselessness?—of Adversity
Frank G. Ryder

Toward Unity in the Humanities
Diether H. Haenicke

A Case for the Humanities
Jean A. Perkins

On the Humanistic Value of Foreign Language Study
Henri Peyre

On Knowing a Foreign Language
Mills F. Edgerton, Jr.

Linguistics and Language Teaching
Winfred P. Lehmann

Applications as Tea Leaves: The NEH and the Teaching of the Humanities
Geoffrey Marshall

Renaissance and Rapprochement: The Problem of Academic Standards
Charlotte Anderson

America's Schools: The Frontier of Language Teaching
S. Frederick Starr

The Profession and Its Rewards

Publish and Perish, Or Why I Recommend Distance Running
Phyllis Z Boring

Rewards for Successful Teaching
Kurt E. Müller

Back Matter September 1979