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...country's "decay of virtue, public and private" around the time he nearly blew himself up making powder for the Continental Army. To head off decay, the 26-year-old Phillips got his father and uncle to give cash for a school to teach boys "English and Latin Grammar, Writing, Arithmetic, and those Sciences wherein they are commonly taught, but more especially to learn them the great end and real business of living...
...your issue of Saturday, October 6, the statement is made concerning the Ga language that the last study of it "was made in 1858." Actually, a grammar of Ga with notes and exercises was published at Oxford in 1930, the author being M. B. Wilkie. Joshua Whatmough, Chairman of the Department of Lingulstics...
...return, Flanagan got 5,000,000 cards packed with one billion bits of information, which is now being organized and analyzed by Pitt's computers. Among preliminary discoveries: >English teaching is slipshod: only one out of 100 kids produced a five-minute theme without mistakes in grammar, spelling or usage...
When Sam was 13. his father's health failed, and by the rigid seniority rules governing the Newhouse clan, the oldest male child took over as head of the family. Sam's qualifications for this office were fewer than his years: a grammar-school education at Bayonne's P.S. 7, plus whatever acumen he had absorbed in a business course in Manhattan (to save the 3¢ ferry fare, young Newhouse toted
Young Heath first showed a flair for music in his early teens, when he was attending a grammar school near Broad-stairs. After six years there, he landed a coveted organ scholarship to Balliol, Oxford's most earnest college and Harold Macmillan's alma mater. Heath played the organ at chapel and conducted the choir. He majored in politics, philosophy and economics, but was torn between the law and music as a profession. In 1940 he joined the Royal Artillery as a private in the ranks, fought through four of the Six: France, Belgium, Holland and Germany...