Oh, yeah. She was fluent in English, as well as Hebrew. But Hebrew didn't count. Nor did Chinese. I just went and looked, and unfortunately the catalogue I kept ('93-94) was after the requirement was dropped for Chemistry. But I remember French and German were OK. (As far as "why are we doing this", I guess the good thing is that they did drop it by 1992 or 1993; why they kept it so long... well, I did get my degree at an Ivy League school.)