Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are two ways of preparing men for college earlier. Firstly, let special classical schools "dip down" into the territory of the grammar schools, take scholars at the age of 12, and prepare them especially for college, (what is now done by the Boston Latin and the Roxbury Latin Schools), or secondly, enrich the cause of education given in the grammar schools...
...given in turn by all the instructors in the course, and afford an excellent chance for men to get acquainted with the peculiarities and the methods of the various instructors. The lectures will give outlines of the following special topics: General scope and History of Classical Philology, Chronology, Grammar and Lexicography, Political History, the Antiquities, Political, Legal, Military and Private, the History of Philosophy. Mythology and Religion, the History of Greek and Latin Literature, and many others...
...President and Fellows have just made an announcement which will be welcome, especially to the needy men who are trying to prepare for Harvard. Edward Hopkins, a wealthy London merchant, in the seventeenth century left bequests for Harvard, Yale and the founding of several Hopkins Grammar Schools. One was situated in Cambridge; but it died out about 35 years ago. The fund which supported it was turned over to the Cambridge Latin School for a time; but now, by the original deed, is to be divided into nine scholarships which will pay for the education of nine students preparing...
University Grammar School, Providence-R. S. Howland, S. Henshaw...
...elective system has also entered into the schools. The high schools of all the great western cities have adopted a system of election of courses, although not of particular studies. The grammar schools of the West have a wider range of study than those of the East. This elective system which has been so rapidly developed is one of Harvard's gifts to the West...