Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BIJOU THEATRE.-"Peck's Bad Boy." Performance...
BIJOU THEATRE.-"Peck's Bad Boy," Performance...
...have elapsed the study of the classics under the old-new method has been given a great impetus and an interest which formerly was rapidly disappearing. It is a fallacy to suppose a man can learn much of a language, be it ancient or modern, by "digging out" a bad translation with a small dictionary and a poor "trot," or by filling his mind full of grammar which he neither cares about nor remembers. It has been acknowledged that the best way to learn any language is to hear it spoken and we know for a certainty that children...
BIJOU THEATRE.-"Peck's Bad Boy." Performance...
...rather a test of physical endurance than of knowledge. But there seems to be such ignorance among those who have charge of our examinations in regard to the ventilation of this room that year by year examinations are held in it in spite of the great heat and the bad air which are its chief characteristics. We wish to publicly call attention to this state of affairs, and urge that for the future, if it be too late to change now, all examinations which would be held in U. E. R., be held in the unoccupied recitation rooms of Sever...