Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Reading of German stories, (those read in Prof. Cook's section,) with special attention to grammar and vocabulary, 7 to 12 P. M. Saturday; 2 to 5 and 7 to 11 P. M., Monday. Books furnished. College House...
Reading of German stories, (those read in Prof. Cook's section,) with special attention to grammar and vocabulary, 7 to 12 P. M. Saturday; to 5 and 7 to 11 P. M., Monday. Boom furnished. College House...
...languages has been a peculiar one, not to put it too strongly, a method employing the dictionary largely in translating the author's ancient and modern, and altogether ignoring the sound of a language. In fact it was a reasoning system, one that was largely made up of grammar and "trot" and that did not teach a man to distinguish the subtle differences in measure and order by his ear (an organ which seldom errs) but by complex rules, committed to memory with much labor and easily forgotten. In the English colleges of a few centuries...
...great movements of literature are of the greatest importance to everyone. The wonder is that the present systematic study of English was not made years ago. These seems to be an idea lurking even yet in some minds, that where a students has mastered the elements of English grammar he is fully equipped for this study; that such knowledge will come as a matter of course. And yet it is evident that some preliminary training at college will enable a man to make infinitely more out of our literature than he could do without. The ever-growing number...
...brethren, and with others who may wish to study this noble language, the writer does not hesitate to commend this scholarly and well-arranged book as the most practical and serviceable work of the kind known to him. By its assistance in conjunction with Professor Whitney's excellent grammar, students will be able to acquire a fair knowledge of Sanskrit with much greater pleasure and ease than formerly...