Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor J. D. M. Ford '94, busied himself during the summer on his Peterboro, N. H. farm. Professor Ford has recently finished work on his "Portuguese Grammar" (Heath & Co.), which he expects to be published before the end of this winter...
...Harper Junior High School Chicago, there was trouble. The schoo' had been changed from an ordinary eight-grade grammar school to a new type called "junior high" school because it excluded the lower grades. Pupil; belonging in the lower grades were told upon reporting, to go to different "feeder" (lower grade) schools in other parts of the city. They went home instead, told their parents. The parent; stormed Harper, milled about its halls demanded of Principal Harrower reason why their children had to leave the neighborhood to attend school, thus risking their lives in Chicago traffic thus wasting time...
...Abie's Irish Rose of Germany and people assembled to malign the effort mentally and laugh themselves sick on the side. Unhappily, the things that aroused hilarity in Germany did not sound so funny in the U. S. The translation sounded like a literal rendering of German grammar exercises by one of the least intelligent members of the class. The plot bestirs itself about a haughty family who think their daughter could have done a lot better than marry that young doctor. The young doctor's old father takes the second act pretty much into his own hands...
...resigned, that he was going to Cincinnati to a relative who was ill, that when he came back he would be made a member of an "ad-visory committee of the National Re- publican Committee, which will have the real management of the campaign." As a matter of grammar, the last clause was interpreted as a modifier of "advisory committee"?a proposition which would have meant practically the deposing of Mr. Butler as head of the coming campaign. Next day the President took pains to point out that Mr. Butler was to manage the campaign as Chairman...
...King," for such he was in name and fact and fable, is dead. His reign was historic in the development of American private schools. Coming from Gettysburg, an obscure college town in Pennsylvania, achieving his first petty distinction as an author of Buehler's Modern English Grammar, he was suddenly elevated 20 years ago to be the supreme administrator of a new and comparatively small school. When he died, the Hotchkiss School had equals but no superiors in the land, and was one of a group of schools which boasted a pride of spirit and a social discipline comparable...