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...every stage," said Chemist Hildebrand, "there were watchful men who honestly believe more in 'social competency' than in grammar and arithmetic, and, because good-natured committeemen try to fix up their reports so as to make every member happy, anything seriously critical of certain doctrines and practices largely responsible for the present deplorable and dangerous situation [in the schools] could not get through." In discussing Topic i-What should our schools accomplish?-six members out of eleven at Hildebrand's Table No. 40 flatly declared that the schools are trying to do too much. But when...
Please, when our President was just out of the hospital, couldn't someone have corrected his thanks for welcoming "Mrs. Eisenhower and 'I'"? What will some of these culturally snooty countries think of America's grammar! And on the first page of your National Affairs [Nov. 21] section...
...Curiouser and curiouserl" cried Alice, when, after eating the cake in the rabbit's cavern she began to grow nine feet tall. While most Harvard people would correct Alice's grammar, and blame Malthus rather than the cake, the note of incredulity usually remains as they watch the University's policy toward the rapidly rising demand for a Harvard College education...
...compare today's students with those of only yesterday, Chairman Herbert B. Nelson of Oregon State's Department of English decided to give 1,800 freshmen the very same examination given in 1927. His findings: yesterday's students knew more about both spelling and grammar, had nowhere near as much trouble with such words as similar, laboratory and apologize. In '1927 the freshmen made 53 errors on 163 questions. Today's average: 66 errors...
Since the primary emphasis of the grammar school text is to present expository material, much of which is totally unfamiliar to the student, textbook publishing demands a highly precise and clear style. It is the patient grinding of an educational tool. The material covered, too, must be such that it will fill a school's requirements in a determined amount of time. The process of preparing a text becomes a long one, often requiring the work of several years by one or more trained authors...