Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...lectures in Historical Italian Grammar were resumed last Tuesday. They are given...
When the new Latin Grammar, of which we hear so much, comes out (I understand it has already progressed as far as title-page and dedication), my work will be considerably lessened...
...doubtful grammar of the last line may be explained by either the years of the writer, or the unsettled condition of the English language at the time when he wrote; but the allusion to the Semmi-Anualls is not so easily explained, for antiquarians disagree about the nature of the festival called by that name. The noted scholar A. Proctor, who has devoted much time to the study of this subject, makes the following statement...
...worst; a Freshy overhead was lucky enough to have a piano, and banged 'Whoa! Emma,' and other Freshmanic ditties on it all day long, accompanying a chorus of some twenty classmates. I could n't study at all, with so much noise to distract my thoughts from Italian Grammar and Natural History; result, an average of forty and one fifteenth per cent for Sophomore year...
Admission to Oxford seems to be easy. The applicant is examined in some Greek play, generally Euripides, or in Homer and Thucydides, in Virgil or some other of the Latin classics; must translate a short English passage into Latin prose, answer some questions on grammar, show a fair familiarity with arithmetic, and know something of Euclid or algebra. But if he possess special excellence in any one of these studies he is pretty certain to be admitted, even though he be weak in the rest. Oxford has a great tendency to foster special abilities...