The entire 5-year French programme was contained in one book!
"At that time the goal was to translate from French into English and English into French with a little bit of oral practice because they wanted to give French respectability on a par with Latin and Greek. They were the classical studies and they were considered to be the intellectual challenge, and so for French to have a high level of interest and also respectability, they taught it the same way - translation in both directions with an odd little oral part."