----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- While I expect that there are historians of economics who can function only in English and math, I sympathize with John Womack's thinking about the role of language training in the preparation of historians of economics. One of the ironies of my own graduate education is the Faculty of Graduate Studies' automatic waiver of the second language requirement. The Faculty waived that requirement for all economics graduate students, on the basis of preparation in mathematics and statistics; hence no one thought to ask whether it would be more appropriate for me to meet the language requirement. Of course, the second language requirement would have been quite appropriate for my dissertation research on Frank Knight. Ross Emmett ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]