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From: Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Clarke Award Finalists 1993
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:34:11 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com
(James Nicoll) wrote:

> 
> My engineer grandfather once mentioned MIT encouraged him to learn 
> German. That would have been the late 1920s, early 1930s. 

In 1960, my college advisor told me that a math major must
learn German.  I did well, but not well enough to read math
papers.

Today, I can't even read de.alt.fan.aldi


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