I got curious to see if I could support what I said in the previous post about "philology." A Google Search for "department of philology" turns up 10,700 hits, mostly from Russia or Greece. Factor out "Russia" and "Russian" and you get down to 550.
I seem to recall that Minnesota kept an old-fashioned philology program long after anyone else. A Google search suggests that they had a department of German philology until just a few years ago, but aparrently they merged it out. Since the grand tradition of philology was probably for the most part German anyway, it may be that I was right.
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