Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this is absurd, as absurd as the assertion in one of your journals that your Mr. Evarts "was too old for a senator," and that he "was too old to change his mind." Why, your new senator is Billy Evarts, Evarts, who used to reel off Adams's Latin Grammar at the Boston Latin School,-only a few years ago, and we are his contemporaries. I contend that these charges are libelous, both as against Mr. Evarts and the overseers. Still, there are younger alumni, and you can, if you see fit, in your next election, drop some...
...German-Lessing, Schiller, Goethe and c. Translation at sight of modern German prose. Grammar and composition...
...French-George Sand, LaFontaine, Moliere, and c. Translation at sight of modern French prose. Grammar and composition...
...notion. Since nobody believes that mental discipline can be obtained from this sort of study, nobody either studies or teaches the subject in the proper way for getting such discipline. There are no such textbooks as there are in the other branches of study. For a scientific exposition in grammar and the nature of language in general, one goes to the classics rather than to living languages. The study of Modern Languages is made to engage the memory alone, and those who undertake the study tend. in consequence, to "become simple information-machines, stuffed with systems of facts that they...
...year to appear a little verdant, as they say; indeed he is not to be blamed for it. But when the freshman has become a sophomore he is supposed to have set aside his freshman ways. But what are we to think of men who have retained their grammar schoolboy ways and introduced them into their sophomore year at college? Last Saturday in Sever 6 between twelve and one o'clock, we witnessed a sight which carried us back a good many years, to schoolboy days. It is very pleasant of course at proper times and in proper places...