Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Grammar," says the News, "is one of the most popular of Harvard's electives." Our E. C. should not omit to state that reading, writing and arithmetic are also popular here...
...last Friday morning in the geology section may perhaps be regarded as the culmination of an ill-feeling which has been constantly increasing since the beginning of the term. Although it is certainly not desirable to have loose management in conducting recitations, yet the youthful rules and practices of grammar schools seem to be sadly out of place in our college recitation rooms. If the instructor does resort to such methods he must expect something like the manifestation of last Friday morning. The frailty of human nature forbids it being otherwise. We may be able to endure the harassing catch...
...American school have already acquired an extensive knowledge of ancient Greek. The director of the school, a man fifty years of age, is the leading Hellenist in America and England, a professor in Harvard University at Cambridge, translator of the Morals of Plutarch, author of a Greek grammar, of a most excellent work on the Syntax of the Greek Moods and Tenses, and of many other philological treatises.... The school, for the present, until it shall have erected its own building, has rented a newly repaired house near Hadrian's Gate and the Pillars of the Temple of Olympian Zeus...
...fact of the former living in dormitories. . . . It is terrible expensive here as compared with Ann Arbor. I and chum have to pay $5.00 a week for room and $6.00 a week for table-board apiece, making $17.00 a week, outside of all other expenses. . . . A son of Greek-Grammar Hadley is our professor in German, and a son of Geologist Dana in physic. All those famous men - Loomis, Dana, Sr., Whitney, etc., - never sniff at a class lower than the senior. They serve as elegant figureheads to give the college a 'rep.' However, you must not give me away...
...Latin the requirements for admission to the freshman class were besides grammar and composition the whole of Virgil, of Caesar and Cicero's Select Orations, but in Greek only Felton's Greek Reader. The studies of the freshman and sophomore years were entirely prescribed. Of the junior and senior, partly prescribed and partly elective. Greek, Latin, Mathematics, Physics and German, were well taught. To Philosophy considerable attention was paid, and especially to Political Philosophy and Constitutional History; Rhetoric, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and some minor subjects were taught. "Instruction" is put at $75.00 a year; total expenses...