Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thus practically gave the teachers the upper hand. These corporations became faculties in the thirteenth century in somewhat the following way: Comparatively little specialized teaching existed at Paris towards the end of the twelfth century, and most of the Masters in Arts only taught the "trivial arts," as Grammar, Rhetoric and Dialectics, While the Quadruvian was reserved for higher art students. Thus the teachers of arts would have their fees reduced by the graduates of of the Chancellor. However, with the necessity of more specialized teaching the board which drew the professors of any of the four disciplines together would...
...desired. Scarcely has the child been taught to count as high as 10, when he is put at technical applications of arithmetic, to money coins, to divisions of time, space, etc.; and these technical applications are increased in number and in difficulty through the successive years of the grammar school, until for a large amount of so-called arithmetic the pupil gets comparatively little practice in the art of numbers. I am far from saying that the pupils of our public schools should not acquire a certain amount of useful information. The most familiar "tables" of lengths, weights, measures...
...verbs is somewhat elaborate, but it is without exceptions. Volapuk has already been adopted in various parts of Australia, Syria, Germany and America. In Paris it is taught in thirteen institutions, and there are five newspapers published in it. We are quite prepared to believe the statement of Volapuk grammar that, "anyone, understanding English, French, German or Latin, can acquire a complete knowledge of this new language in a month." Indeed, proof is offered by a class in one of the French business colleges, which, after eight lessons, was able to correspond easily in this tongue...
...pounding Stagg would give him; Osborn has the making of a good catcher, is fearless, quick motioned, and fully able to hold Stagg. He would be out of his element in the left field, but would make a good first baseman, which position he creditably filled for the grammar school nine. Both Kellogg and Osborn are unreliable batters and will need plenty of practice. The full list of candidates is: Catchers - Dann, '88S.; Osborn, '88 S.; Kellogg, '87 S.; Durant, '87 S.; Strait, '89 S.; Sullivan, '90. Pitchers - Stagg, '88; Heyworth. 88. First base - Spencer, '89 S.; Anderson, '90. Second...
...literature is divided into three classes, Religious, Scientific and Historical. The first class consists of epic poems, hymns, prayers and incantations; the second of books of astronomy, mathematics, medicine, grammar, etc.; the third of law documents, lists of magistrates, records of the dynasties, etc. Dr. Frothingham dwelt on the Mythology of the Assyrians, comparing it with the Mythology of Greece. He read several interesting extracts from poems and historical accounts. He will devote the next lecture solely to Assyrian and Babylonian...