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Edward H. Addelson '39, 10G, supervisor for the Study Counsel Bureau, will give the course. He has written a special 60-page text-book for the course called "A Short Review of English Grammar...
...offering the course for these students," William G. Perry, Director of the Bureau said, "because many were never taught the fundamentals of formal grammar at school. This makes it very difficult for them in language courses. For instance, they may not even know the difference between a noun and an adjective...
Having trouble with your French? Or is it your English? In either case the Bureau of Study Counsel offers a cure. Beginning December 3rd, it will introduce a ten-day experimental course in English formal grammar for students in elementary foreign language courses...
Fame & Flurries. The son of a Baptist minister, William Kilpatrick first began to be known after he joined the staff of Columbia University Teachers College back in 1907. But even before that time, he had already proved that he was a rebel at heart. As a grammar-school principal in Georgia, he had stirred up flurries of controversy by doing away with report cards and never punishing his pupils. Later, as a professor of mathematics at Georgia's Baptist Mercer University, he stirred up more controversy by admitting that he did not believe in the Virgin birth. After...
...points in the strip. He finds all the oddities of the English language and puns with them until he has formed a new language for his creature creations. From Deacon Mushrat, who speaks in Old English script to pup dog who pontificates on poltergeist, each varmint adds his own grammar...