According to information received yesterday from Serge Elisseeff, director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and professor of H. Pfeiffer, chairman of the present Division of Semitic Languages and History, and assistant professor of Semitic Languages, the independence of the Division of Semitic Languages is not threatened by the plan for a new Division of Oriental Languages. The statement in Monday's CRIMSON that the new Division Oriented Languages, (in which there will be the then Department of Semitic Languages and History), will in any way absorb the latter is "an absurdity, a mistake, and a misstatement."
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