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...four years and eleven issues, in lively and generally flawless Latin, the Acta has been reporting the news of ancient Rome for teachers and pupils in schools all over Britain. With a slim capital of ?100, two Latin masters-George Maxwell Lyne, 44, of the Blackpool Grammar School and Robert Douglas Wormald, 49, of the Worcester Royal Grammar School-had started it to persuade Britons that there was really nothing very dead about Latin. Their readers seemed to agree: teachers began ordering as many as 50 and 100 copies at a time (price: sixpence apiece). Circulation hit 9,000 with...
Budding virtuosos with a concert career in mind usually don't come to the University to concentrate in Music. But if you want to learn the grammar and syntax of music, concentration in this field should be perfect...
...ungrammatical phrases and sat down. Then he went back to his hotel and wept with rage. Next day he hired one_ Madame Amanda, a Metropolitan Opera voice coach, to teach him how to talk. He got Damon Runyon to write him a speech. He memorized it, studied grammar, went on a 40-night lecture tour (at $1,000 a night) and conquered his fears...
...language so fascinated him that, in his spare time, Headmaster Marples of Wolstanton Grammar School at Newcastle under Lyme has been jotting down campus words and finding out how they came to be. Last week Britons were chuckling over the result: a thin, bright little book entitled University Slang...
Harold Laski attended Manchester Grammar School, performed brilliantly in Latin and Greek, then went up to Oxford to take a First Class Honors degree in modern history. From Oxford, Laski went as a lecturer to McGill University in Montreal, thence to Harvard, where he became fast friends with Felix Frankfurter and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, among others. At Harvard, Laski inveighed tirelessly against the state, just as his "Manchester-school" predecessors had before him. Sometimes he would say: "All governments are bloody. The anarchists are right...