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...recalled a speech she gave at the Law School in which a student commended her words, only to add that they might have been more effective if she had used proper grammar...
Stout's reply: "I use perfect grammar in my community...
...below will be prohibited from teaching for a term and forced to do time with the slightly dilapidated folk at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. There they will learn about such subtleties as not marking papers with red pen (too intimidating), not criticizing students for bad grammar (ditto), and feigning a respectful attitude toward whatever last-minute drek a student might contrive to present. Mostly, however, they will learn not to engage in egregious misbehavior. In practical terms this boils down to being a nicer person and giving out higher grades...
...Laws" from Harvard. An extremely frustrated former-president and newly instated University overseer John Quincy Adams wrote that as "an affectionate child of our Alma Mater" he could not countenance "her disgrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name." Indeed, after receiving the degree, which was presented in Latin, Jackson was said to have responded. "Ex post facto; c pluribus unum; sic scmper tyrannis; quid...
...more thoroughly than now seems necessary. He has an annoying tendency to introduce a new character and then jump years or even decades ahead in time for an anecdote, leaving him constantly backtracking: "This all came much later" or "But all that came later." And his grasp of English grammar is sometimes shaky. A husband named Mert Perry wakes to the sound of helicopters: "Next to him, the noise also awakened Darlene Perry." A slim, original book resides within Once Upon a Distant War, hard to find but finally worth the effort...