Letter from Samuel Huston College President, Stanley E. Grannum, to state education official

letter from Stanley Granum to J Henry Highsmith. the topic of the letter is whether to continue the Foreign Language courses to graduate.

In this letter, Stanley E. Grannum, President of Sam Huston, argues in favor of eliminating the college’s foreign language requirement, noting the general trend at other institutions. While the letter explicitly mentions the continuing availability of languages as an elective, there is no mention of Latin or other ancient languages.

Courtesy of the Huston-Tillotson University, Downs-Jones Library Archives and Special Collections