Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instruction given comprehends all degrees of advancement, from the first rudiments of the language to the most erudite disquisitions on mathematics, logic, philosophy, grammar, theology, and Mohammedan religion and law according to the different rites. The errors in both natural and mental science that must be transmitted from generation to generation, by the fanatical intolerance which bars out all "new-fangled" notions may be imagined, but it is doubtful whether their scholastic ignorance goes quite so far as is related of the college engineers, in Constantinople. not many years ago. A committee of foreign engineers had been invited...
...HOMES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR.It is one thing to teach good grammar, and another thing to speak it. The President of one of our New England colleges, in a lecture delivered in this city last Sunday, said : "Here then is the consequences in the worst possible form of it." And again : "Not only is this so manifested as that philosophers see it." He also spoke of India as "a province that is not profitable except there shall be the cultivation of opinion." He was probably in a condition similar to that of the actor who knew his part so well that...
...Freshman class at Yale numbers 178, twenty-two of whom are from Andover and twenty from Hopkins Grammar School...
...athletic games of the Hopkins Grammar School, Friday, some very good records were made. Rubsamen, '83, won the running broad jump, covering 19 feet 8 1/2 inches, beating the Yale record by 16 inches, and Coxe, '83, threw the hammer 88 feet 3 1/2 inches, beating by 4 1/2 inches the inter-collegiate record. These men will be valuable additions to our athletic force.-[News...
There will be a one-hour examination in Spanish I. on Wednesday, May 16th, in Sever 35, instead of the stated recitation of that day. The subject of the examination will be the Grammar (Verbs) and no text or blank books need be brought...