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Frontmatter -- Introduction / HAUGEN, EINAR -- The Past up to the Introduction of Neogrammarian Thought: Whitney and Europe / ROCHER, ROSANE -- Linguistics as a Science: The Case of the Comparative Method / WELLS, RULON -- Bréal vs. Schleicher: Linguistics and Philology during the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century / AARSLEFF, HANS -- Aspirations, Organization, Achievement / MALKIEL, YAKOV -- Linguistics in America 1924-1974: A Detached View / UHLENBECK, E. M. -- Discussion of the Papers by Yakov Malkiel and by E. M. Uhlenbeck / LANGENDOEN, D. TERENCE -- The Twentieth Century in European and American Linguistics: Movements and Continuity / JAKOBSON, ROMAN -- Index of Names / JAMESON, S. A.