Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...general topic for the morning session was "Present Educational Needs." M. L. Perrin, professor in Boston University and superintendent of schools in Wellesley, delivered the first address. He pointed out the lack of home influence on students in the grammar schools and said that they must be worked with individually. Professor W. T. Foster '01 of Bowdoin College emphasized the need of backbone in college administration to prevent standards from being lowered for the sake of larger numbers. H. W. Holmes '03, chairman of the Committee on Educational Progress, then read an abstract from his report...
...Boston. Among the notable specimens are: Wilson's Rhetoriche and Logiche, Hart's Orthographie, the first English edition of Record's Arithmetic, the Dialogues of Corderius, and other school books used in the latter part of the sixteenth century. Another interesting volume is a copy of Melanchthon's Greek Grammar. This was the reformer's own copy of the work and has numerous annotations in his handwriting...
Other interesting objects are an early English hornbook, and an American hornbook found in New Jersey, one of three known specimens with a battledore and some early English primers. There is also the only known copy of Lilley's Latin Grammar, and a unique handbook of penmanship issued...
...Worcester, England, and Worcester, Massachusetts," by S. S. Green '58; "Each in his Own Tongue and Other Poems," by W. H. Carruth, A.M., '89; "Fragments of Empedocles, Translated into English Verse," by W. E. C. Leonard, A.M., '99; "A Working Grammar of the English Language," by J. C. Fernald '60; "Limitations of the Right to Strike," by W. G. Merritt '02; "Times of Sunrise and Sunset in the United States," by R. W. Willson '73; "The Higher Life in Art," by John La Farge '01; "Mars as the Abode of Life," by Percival Lowell '76; "The Art of Painting...
January 2--On Science; Grammar, Logic, Mathematics...