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...Camp McCauley airstrip near Linz, Austria, a Russian two-engine light bomber bounced on to the field, overshot the strip and crumpled into a fence. Out climbed a handsome Soviet air force lieutenant, English grammar in hand. "I is Russian pilot," he said. "Where is Linz...
...moving class meetings twice a week. Their sections have been arbitrarily assigned without so much as a nod towards the varying abilities of the students. Skillful writers may very well find themselves classed with other men who have to be coached all the way up from the fundamentals of grammar. The result is an unwieldy and inflexible course, with material geared to its slowest students...
Greek at Twelve. At swank St. Mark's School in Massachusetts, cherubic Edward John Trevor Davies found his U.S. schoolmates deficient in languages ("Everybody was surprised that I had studied Greek when I was twelve"), English grammar ("The average boy could not express himself on paper"), and European history ("Only 10% knew the number of the monarch of Great Britain...
...public lectures, revised its required natural sciences course to put more emphasis on physiology of sex. But professors were inclined to agree with Walker, who said: "Sex education on the college level is closing the barn after the horse has run away . . . The job should be started in the grammar schools or earlier...
There are over 30,000 such Americans in Paris now. At the Sorbonne, where vacation courses are being held in French Grammar and Civilization, the traditional starving student from the provinces has been replaced temporarily by the seersuckered foreigner, and Harvard club ties are seen flashing around old stone cloisters...