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...students to examine classical subjective literature, calculating the number of times each part of speech was used, making students aware of undesirable loose jargon and grandiose tendencies in much specialized work. Style analysis, former head section man for the option, Martin Robbins, said, forced the students to review their grammar and brought them closer to absorbing the gestures of each writer's style...
...techniques used in language schools such as Berlitz and solid structural underpinnings. Rassias' aim: to start students talking in a new language within minutes after the first class begins and to keep them "communicating" at a rapid rate-never mind, at first, accent, vocabulary or minor mistakes in grammar. Each first-year course requires two hours of class drill a day plus four hours a week of traditional lab work...
After only ten weeks of instruction, the students go abroad for ten weeks to live with foreign families. They continue their intensive study-this time with more conventional teaching of grammar-under the supervision of an American professor. Indeed, as Rassias explained to TIME Correspondent David Wood, getting students overseas is a major goal of the program. "We're gonna take these kids and dynamite some raw language into them," he said with typical gusto. "Then they're gonna blast out of here and smash into France, and they're gonna destroy everybody with how well they...
...some of them once had more strenuous thoughts. Staff Writer Le Anne Schreiber, who wrote the cover story, recalls the time when as a ten-year-old she hid her hair under a stocking cap and tried out for halfback on the football team of her Evanston, Ill., Catholic grammar school. "I was beating this guy out for the position," Schreiber says, "so he pulled off my cap, and the priest who was coaching the team shrieked, 'It's a girl!' and ordered me off the field." But she came on strong later as "Swivel Hips Schreiber...
...college owned bonds and securities totaling .?5,115. When added to the income from student fees (?23, 13 shillings for room, board, tuition, firewood, candles and sundries), the interest from the endowment is now enough to meet operating expenses. Under Witherspoon, combined enrollment in the college and grammar school has risen from about 100 students in 1768 to 150 today...