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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...able teachers of chemistry fifty years ago, but the chemistry of today is a different science. Barrett Wendell has consistently endeavored to make his study and his instruction in English scientific and in full accord with his realization of the growth and change of the language. Usage makes good English. Professor Wendell found it one of his tasks to impress the fact that usage does not require the sanction of generations to become "good usage" and therefore good English. He never professed horror at such a venial offence as a split infinitive. He was, in brief, eminently...
Latin and Greek are to be discarded, but the older children are to be familiarized with ancient thought and literature through translations. Formal grammar will be dispensed with except as special need of it may be felt. The emphasis is to be on science and modern languages. A good deal of attention will be paid to the fine arts, not with the idea of training poets, musicians and painters, but in order that pupils may enjoy poetry, music and painting...
...Melrose high School seven in the third game of its season on the new rink at Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3.15 o'clock. With the team work of the 1920 players continuing to improve, the chances for a duplication of last Wednesday's performance against Milton are good. The improvement in the passing of the forward line is especially notable, the team work on the offensive being exceptional for this time of the season. F. C. Church, Jr., 20, J. Stubbs '20, and W. J. Louderback '20, who have been back in the game during the past week, will...
This match was the first Crimmins and Gay have competed in, and their showing was very good, the latter winning two matches by the score of 6 to 0, and the former making one 6 to 0 score. Russell added one more such score to the team's credit over Hargreaves. The summary follows...
...undergraduates to have in College halls what speakers they will, provided the meetings are open only to members of the University. The Corporation has felt that the students ought to be thinking about the controversies of the day, and has recognized the desirability of allowing persons who in good faith bring a message to be invited by the student organizations, and of allowing the use of unoccupied College rooms for this purpose. Under this broad policy we have had many propagandists: advocates of the initiative and referendum (W. S. U'Ren. December 2, 1912, in Emerson D), the Progressive Party...