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"For seven days at the end of July, I spent an entire week in a mansion in West Virginia with thirty other people.  For these seven days, only Latin was spoken within these walls.  This weeklong intensive, immersive experience reanimated

From the beginning of May until the end of June, I had the opportunity to go to a French language school in the northeast part of Paris.  The institute I attended is called Campus Langues.  The program there was primarily focused on

A quotation of George Norlin––the professor of Greek and former university president, for whom the library was named––is inscribed on the lintel of Norlin Library: ENTER HERE THE TIMELESS FELLOWSHIP OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. I have passed under these words countless times in a rush to get a coffee or check out a book. Those times that I noticed it, I often thought to myself how the epigraph felt cliché. But, over the summer, I found my eyes drawn again and again to those words.

Thanks to a language-study grant from the Center for Western Civilization, I returned to Chambéry, France for a second summer in a row to continue learning French at the Institut Savoisien d’Etudes Françaises pour Etrangers.

"Through my involvement in the CWCTP and the Global Engineering Residential Academic Program, I decided that having a knowledge of another language increases a student’s basic understanding for culture, mental framework, and multi-cultural

"Thanks to the Summer travel grant from the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy (CWCTP), I was able to travel to Poland and take part in a 7-week, intensive Polish language course. My dissertation project, for the Department of

"My program requires that I demonstrate a foreign language proficiency by the time I complete my exams and advance to candidacy.  In my research I may actually need more than one foreign language, and this can end up very costly.  With the

"This summer I received a grant from the CWCTP to study German, which has been both edifying and rewarding. My discipline (Classics) has a strong place in German intellectual history, and many of the foundational works on the various sub-fields are

"With the grant from the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy, I spent the beginning of the summer studying the German language for reading knowledge.  This was my first foray into the German language and I found it fascinating.

"I received a language study grant this summer towards the study of Romanian language. I completed a course of study with ROLAND School in Bucharest, Romania, and was able to achieve a level of Advanced...I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to