Word: ear
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...author's ancient and modern, and altogether ignoring the sound of a language. In fact it was a reasoning system, one that was largely made up of grammar and "trot" and that did not teach a man to distinguish the subtle differences in measure and order by his ear (an organ which seldom errs) but by complex rules, committed to memory with much labor and easily forgotten. In the English colleges of a few centuries ago, it was an ordinary circumstance to carry on a conversation in Latin, and the control which an average student had over the language...
...This school seems to have found a solution of the problem which has been puzzling the brains of educators for a number of years past,-how to teach modern languages in classes so that they may become real and live to the students. The scheme is to educate the ear as well as the eye by assiduous practice, so that the languages can be spoken as well as read, and it is almost useless for us to add that this method is the only thoroughly satisfactory one. English, for the time being, is left behind entirely, and all conversation...
...have brushed against a man who appears for all the world like a battered veteran of the wars, but whom, by his cap, dress, spectacles and other insignia, you recognize at length as a German student. His face is scarred and seamed, it may be that part og one ear is gone ; certainly his appearance is redoubtable. The apology which rose to your lips, however, dies away unuttered when you notice his insolent stare and catch the words, "Wie viele dummer jungen ?" (Literally, how many foolish children ?) Taking umbrage at the tone no less than the words, with true American...
...will out. When Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune, was in college, he revealed an unusual zeal in mastering the difficulties of the mother tongue. He got his Latin and Greek, but he was always subjecting to an analysis all the English spoken within reach of his hungry ear. He killed off a great number of these verbal savages during his college days and thus in part fitted himself for the office of war correspondent and editor. College graduates have written letters in which there was the following spelling: "colledge," "sundies," "to great," "to fat," "separate." It would...
...crowd went tearing after it. It came down and bounded once. A Wesleyan man seized it, and a Princeton man seized him, and, after slinging him round and round two or three times, threw him away in a disgusted manner. He landed about on the point of his right ear and two Princeton men jumped on him. He yelled "down!" Every one knew he was down; there was not any doubt about that. Then they let him up and the two sides formed in lines on each side of the ball. A Wesleyan man put his foot on the ball...