Excerpt from Modern Language Teaching, Vol. 9: The Official Organ of the Modern Language Association

This was held on January 8 and 9, at the University of London, and owed part of its great success, no doubt, to the fact that the Association took part in the Conference of educational associations due to the initiative of the late Mr. H. B. Garrod and the Teachers' Guild. Apart from this the meeting would have been one of the most successful ever held owing to the interesting nature and high standard of the papers read, as well as to the lively discussions which followed some of them. It would seem as if our Association, on the eve of its majority, were becoming conscious of its strength, and meant to procure for the modern humanities their rightful place in the modern curriculum, and to assert boldly their power to enlarge the mind and refine the character - in short, to be an instrument of culture to the fullest extent. We should not forget also that much of the success of the meeting was due to Dr. Macan, whose presidential address, strong in its advocacy of modern culture, was so full of wit and epigram and sound common sense. It might be mentioned too that Dr. Macan presided at the Annual Dinner at the Holborn Restaurant, and that his wit and humour contributed much to the evening's enjoyment. Two foreign delegates were present: Dr. Otto from the Neuphilogenverband, and Monsieur Kuhn from L'Association des Professeurs de Langues vivantes, who brought greetings from their respective associations.

After the routine business, which was not of a controversial nature, and after the reading of the various reports, financial and otherwise, there was a short interval.

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