Study of Portugese Spreads Through U. S. Universities

As part of the movement to foster closer relations between Brazil and this country, a number of colleges and universities in the United States are following Harvard's lead by introducing courses in Portuguese.

For some years there has been here a half-course devoted to the language and literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Portugal, taught by Jeremiah D. M. Ford, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages, whose edition of Fanshawe's English version of Camoen's "Lusiad" has recently been published by the University Press.

Next year for the first time modern Portugese literature will be taught by Charles R. D. Miller, instructor in Romance Languages and in German. Miller is the author of a book dealing with one of the chief modern Portuguese writers, Almeida Garrett, to appear in the fall.