Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hopkins Grammar School nine defeated the Yale freshman recently...
Professor Lane's new Latin Grammar is soon to appear...
...writer, however, seems to forget that the larger colleges, like Harvard and Yale, have much better facilities for furnishing the much-talked-of "practical" education, than do his "small and weak colleges." They, like our high and grammar schools, are of the greatest importance in promoting education, but to maintain that there is no need of universities like our own, where "the purpose is to impart a high scholarly finish to the accomplishments of a privileged class," seems to be going a little...
...English magazine has devoted three columns in a recent number to the evils of examinations, most of which applies mainly to preparatory and grammar schools. A few remarks, however, may be quoted with some bearing on the evils of the system here. It says: "It is no uncommon thing to find examination papers which an accomplished literary man would not undertake to answer unless he had two or three days and the aid of a good library. That too much is often required, that subjects are given which cannot be properly treated, and that much harm is done to boys...
Prof. Knapp of Yale College, the editor of classical Spanish writings, and the author recently of a Spanish grammar, will soon issue "Readings in Spanish Literature...