An Inter-Scholastic German Glee Club

Abstract

THE importance of club activities as indispensable adjuncts to successful modern foreign language teaching is so well established that it hardly requires reiteration or argument at the present writing. For a detailed article on this subject, based on practice rather than theory, the reader is referred to Joshua Hochstein's A Pan American Manual' wherein the why and wherefore and, in a sense limited to a Pan American club, the how of club work receive exhaustive treatment. Standard texts on the teaching of modern foreign languages2 contain abundant bibliographical material on this topic as do articles in current professional periodicals.3 This article, therefore, in speaking of the Inter-Scholastic German Glee Club of New York, will offer no apologies for the existence of the Club for the past seven years. More appropriately, it will endeavor to acquaint the reader with the history and present status, the achievements and activities of the Club, with pertinent statistics, and with such hints on organization and administration as will, it is hoped, point the way for those who would attempt to organize similar clubs in cities other than New York.