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--Failure At School --

Surrounded by handbooks of shady tree in the country as the many Eastern tongues, Sir Denison place for my studies. Ross, founder of the School of | Oriental Studies, told me of his life- longchubby languages, writes ally correspondent.

"At school I was not particular good at languages because looked on them as lessons, and Sir Denison is shortly to retire always hated lessons. It is not un- from his post as Director of the til you visit a foreign country that! School, although his researches you discover whether you have an into Oriental Tanguages will co-aptitude for learning languages.” tinne.

It was when he went over tol

They are a hobby to me," he Paris as a young man that Sirį said. “It is only at the week-ends | Denison discovered he possessed that I am able to get right down to this aptitude. He picked up French them in much the same way as with such extraordinary rapidity other people get down to golf and that he decided to learn other ton- bridge. For preference, give me a gues.

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Arabic was the first Oriental lan- guage he studied, and this led to extensive travelling on the Contin- ent and in the Near East during! which he became fluent in many Languages

Thirty Languages

To-day he lectures in six lan-

guages, speaks freely in ten and knows 30 fairly extensively.

When he was 25 he became Pro- fessor of Persian at University College, London. In 1900 he was appointed head of a Mohammedan college at Calcutta, where he stay-

The humble local scrap-iron mer-ed for 14-years, chant, with his donkey and cart, is

His efforts to establish a School to play an important part in the of Oriental studies went on for rearmament of Britain, writes a years before the School was start- correspondent

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Through the agency of local deal "The war was partly a good ers. the iron and steel organisations thing and partly bad for the start- hope to reach the hoards of scraping of the School," he told me. “It] which are known to be hidden in was bad in that there were few pu- countless homes throughout the pils and fewer teachers, but good! country-

because of the real demand for

To launch the campaign for the re-learning Oriental languages when covery of scrap-from, a novel lun-the big push in the Near East was] cheon was given in London by made. Interprefers had to bel George Cohen, Sons and Co. Etd. It trained and many officers had to was held in their big scrap yards at learn these languages. The War Wood-lane, Shepherd's Bush Office and the Admiralty made full

use of the School.

The luncheon-tent was set among heaps of old fron and steel, relics of engines, motor-cars, bedsteads and girders.

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Japanese Proves Hard "To-day there is an average of 500 pupils, and about 40 languages are taught. Of these, Arabic is by far the most popular. Many Indians On a giant weighbridge at the came over here specially to learn entrance to the yard. I saw the little Sanskrit and Persian because they carts and trucks of the scrap mer-receive a more scholastic knowledge chants arriving with their loads of these languages - here than in some piled high with every imagin their own country. able kind of metal, others bearing "I found Japanese was the most ́a few odds and ends. Every felusive language to learn, and of bit of it had been secured from pri-the European tongues Hungarian vate houses, from garage yards and was by far the most difficult be- shop refuse neaps.

cause it contains no trace of the

A speaker at the luncheon told infuence of other languages.” how he had found five hundred-Sir Denison is a Cockney by weight of old metal ——-—- broken gar- birth and proud of it. He is the den tools, bedsteads and household son of the late Rev. A. J. Ross, vi- fitting in a casual rch of his ear of St. Philip's, Stepney;

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