Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detailed twenty-sevens page import to the Faculty, the Committee on the uses of English, headed by J. D. M. Ford, Smith Professor of French and Spanish, urges greater effort on the part of instructors to curb the use of poor English on examinations which the Committee feels in very prevalent...
...Committee has based its findings upon forty mid-year examinations in History I which were submitted to them by instructors as being representative of the style of English which is found in examinations...
...quality of English," this report says, "revealed by these sample papers seeing to this Committies on the whole unworthy of Harvard Freshman and Sophomores. We are convinced that unless this problem is more generally recognized, the situation is not likely to improve...
...report recognizes the fact that the English department teaches competition and that students exempt from English A are expected to write clear prose, but the Committee recommends that "every other department should insist that ideas be clearly and correctly expressed before they are accepted are evidence that the student possesses an adequate grasp of the subject...
...Committee feels that because an examination is written under pressure is no excuse for poor English. Students who write badly on examinations probably also write badly when they have more time, is the belief of the investigators...