Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...themes which had been written hurriedly in the classroom. Whether this fact should be taken into consideration or not is a question. Surely a man who has spent ten years or more in studying English grammar and composition ought to be able to write a page of simple, correct English in twenty minutes. Perhaps with most men it is merely carelessness, but it is just this carelessness which the proposed course in English will eradicate...
...Woods '87, R. DeC. Ward '89, C. B. Gulick '90, K. Lake, C. N. Greenough '98, A. N. Holcombe '06, and Mr. W. C. Greene '11, secretary, has "endeavored to secure, through the co-operation of instructors, a greater attention on the part of students to clear and correct English in written work in all subjects. It has also taken steps, in the case of students whose use of English has been unsatisfactory, to help these students to remedy their deficiencies...
...takes more than an intelligent person to read the news of a single engagement and understand which forces gained the advantage. After a series of attempts to untangle the contradictory statements, the normal person is satisfied to glance at the headlines and trust that his first impression is correct...
...making due allowance for these things, it is quite possible for anyone to gain from the news a tolerably correct idea of the course of the war. For those who cannot give the time necessary for reading critically the full dispatches day by day, the weekly periodicals provide a means for keeping well informed. There is no excuse for contemporary ignorance of one of the most tremendous periods in the world's history...
...improving school management throughout the state. It serves as the great clearing house for Massachusetts educational thought and practice. The school committees thus have an opportunity of hearing the foremost authorities speak on all the phases of school problems, and are able to get a grasp of the correct principles of elementary and secondary educational methods of teaching. The officers of schools in all parts of the state also have unique advantages in becoming acquainted with one another in a social...