Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first (I say a boy, there is no co-education in South America) at the age of nine. He remains in the primary grade for two years. Then he enters the secondary department and remains there for eight years. In these eight years he finishes the work done in grammar schools here, and completes that done in high school and college. To do this the work must necessarily be very hard. The average number of classes a day is six, and for each one there must be thorough preparation. The average South American, then, graduates when...
...like to suggest to the editors of college newspapers that they devote most of their time at their coming convention at Harvard to find a way to make their journals fit to read. Some of the college papers are eyesores typographically, others read as though they were edited by grammar school students and still others, at best nothing more than glorified bulletin boards, betray a striking lack of initiative on the part of their managers. The influence, for good or evil, which a college newspaper possesses is not always appreciated. What effect it has upon the students of the college...
Latin and Greek are to be discarded, but the older children are to be familiarized with ancient thought and literature through translations. Formal grammar will be dispensed with except as special need of it may be felt. The emphasis is to be on science and modern languages. A good deal of attention will be paid to the fine arts, not with the idea of training poets, musicians and painters, but in order that pupils may enjoy poetry, music and painting...
...VIII" with the assurance and occasionally with the overflowing florescence of Mr. H. T. Parker of the Transcript. Sometimes we doubt his phrases, "a rambling story-play of no real central fulcrum"; sometimes his judgement, "in the speech of farewell he achieves the superlative work of genius"; sometimes his grammar, "it all seems to just miss being superb." Yet on the whole Mr. Seymour writes with sincerity and apprehension, and the review, particularly when dealing with the characters, is stimulating...
...meet the demand of men who intend to enter business houses in foreign countries, conversation courses have been instituted at Harvard in German, Spanish and French. But these very courses are allowed to be over-run with formal grammar and written translations. The conspicuous characteristic of such courses is the students' silence. Usually the conversation in the particular foreign language is limited to the professor's monologue. The mistake lies in the impossible attempt to weld both practical and cultural aims. Since poetry is not taught in conjunction with plumbing, why should art be combined with the language of foreign...