Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard and the great success of his efforts in Paris where he is at present the acting head of the American University Union. He cited various works of Professor Ford's, praising especially his "Spanish Anthology" together with his "Old Spanish Sibilants", "Old Spanish Readings", and an excellent "Spanish Grammar...
...Bello, Montalvo, Rodo and Palma, each with his distinctive characteristics. The first, a Venezuelan who becomes a citizen of Chile, apart from his great pedagogic work which makes of him one of the greatest figures in the history of education in Hispanic America is the author of a Grammar of the Spanish Language, with notes, later, by Rufus Jose Cuervo which is still considered the most perfect and most practical for the knowledge of our own language...
...National Education Association whose membership consists of about 150,000 school superintendents and teachers, has made a curious recommendation concerning high school curricula. According to the report in "Time", the society desires a closer alliance of secondary school subjects with those of the grammar chool. As a reason for this liaison, the argument is urged that since only a small proportion of the students intend entering college, their needs should not dominate the courses given. In the theory of the immortal average, the greatest good of the greatest number, this attitude finds its justification...
Although ease of transition from elementary to grammar school is important, it is no less necessary to maintain intact the educational connection with the college. Unless one is to deny many a boy of moderate circumstances adequate training for university work, the public school must accept the burden of that preparation. Already a gap exists between the college requirements, as enforced through the entrance examinations, and the ordinary high school training. Making the gulf wider by increasing the emphasis on practical rather than cultural subjects in the secondary schools is a violation of that democratic principle which strives to give...
...this criticism. He was immense. His comically stupid face was never for one moment marred by the slightest ray of intelligence. His ample army pants were held up by a rope around the waist, giving to their lower portions a curious baggy appearance suggestive of small boys in grammar school. He was forever waddling about through the sets on mischief bent, for all the world like a fat sow hunting out choice bits of garbage Without him the picture would be a dud, with him it was able to make this reviewer disgrace himself by getting into a state...