Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale freshmen played their first game of ball with the Hopkins Grammar School nine at Hamilton Park yesterday afternoon...
...Sophocles, and was created for him in 1860. We doubt if there was ever any great demand for instruction in Prof. Sophocle's peculiar subjects, and in late years the courses were virtually abandoned. The main monuments of the professorship are the works of its only holder-the Greek Grammar and the dictionary...
...near the residence of the Hon. John G. Carlisle, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and an intimate professional friend of my father. In this house I have resided all my life, excepting the six last years,-two spent at Exeter, four at Cambridge. Graduating at the Covington Grammar school in 1876 and the High school in 1878, I spent two years at Exeter, preparatory to entering Harvard. I passed at the July examination, 1880, with honors and conditions alike invisible. Travelling in Italy during the summer preceding my entrance to college, I became acquainted with Redburn of our class...
...here the elements are compressed into a very few lectures, and the student is left to fill in the outlines by private study. An American will find himself somewhat at a disadvantage, when he listens to Latin and Greek citations, unless he has had the advantage of a good grammar-school training; for he will find that he goes back to this, rather than to his college work...
...edition of Cook's Otto's German Grammar has appeared, with various corrections, and the German writing alphabet inserted before the chapter on pronunciation. Prof. Wn. Cook is the editor...