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...linguistically or who is in contact with the language outside of the classroom.) Now if there were no educative value in acquiring a reading and writing knowledge of the language or if its pursuit in college were not worth while unless it began on a basis of oral and aural proficiency, we should say that linguistic study in the secondary school was only for those possessing a high degree of aptitude. The school cannot make linguistic specialists of its average pupils except at the sacrifice of other things more valuable for the time and circumstances. Yet its students should...
Three asses have brayed, and what have they accomplished? Nothing, except that smug feeling of satisfaction that every ass gets when he feels he has uttered something of surpassing sagacity; which feeling he communicates to the world by a certain lazy wagging of his aural appendages...
...corpse but is hounded by his conscience into confessions, which none will believe. Theatre-goers to whom spoken German conveys no meaning may miss the specific but not the general philosophizing. A thumb, a hip, an eyebrow, drilled by Reinhardt, can beggar the average theatre-goer's aural vocabulary...
...Batavia despatch -a "complete" skull the message had said. That meant that if the upper portion should prove similar to the Dubois fragment, science could determine without aid of theory the degree of relationship between pithecanthropus and man and ape from the new skull's lower jaw, aural cavities and spinal connection...
...Dallas, Tex., last week, some 6,000 members of the American Medical Association met in annual convention, ate 4,000 pounds of barbecue young beef, attended eight scientific sections, elected Dr. Wendell Christopher Phillips, great aural surgeon of Manhattan, president...