Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well-to-do burgess and it is probable that his education was the best that the Stratford grammar school could afford. When only 18 years of age he married a woman eight years his senior, the daughter of a farmer who lived in the country near Stratford. Three children were born to them, Suzanna and the twins, Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet, the similarity of whose name to that of "the Dane" will at once be noticed, was Shakspere's only son and it is probable that the father's affections were strongly centred on him. However, he died when only...
...Voted, That the Faculty believe that the Grammar School instruction of New England should be improved on the general lines suggested by the vote of the Association of Colleges in New England...
...Association of Colleges in New England, impressed with the real unity of interest and the need of mutual sympathy and help throughout the different grades of public education, invites the attention of the public to the following changes in the programme of New England Grammar Schools, which it recommends for gradual adoption...
...order to make room in the programme for these new subjects the Association recommends that the time alloted to arithmetic, geography, and English grammar be reduced to whatever extent may be necessary...
...Association makes these recommendations in the interest of the public school system as a whole; but most of them are offered more particularly in the interest of those children whose education is not to be continued beyond the grammar school...