Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reminded that the qualifying examinations will begin in Room 208 in the Administration Building of the Harvard Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, today. The examinations will continue tomorrow and will embrace the following subjects: arithmetic; either the elements of algebra or the elements of geometry; Greek and Latin grammar, translation from English into Latin; either unprepared translation from Greek and Latin or unprepared translation from one of these languages and a book in the other, or one Greek and Latin book chosen from a given list. Candidates are to assemble at 8.30 o'clock, and the examinations, which will begin...
...desire practical training in the French language and literature. The courses will be given between July 20 and August 15. Lectures are on only five days of the week, allowing two consecutive days each week for excursions to points of interest. Throughout the session there are courses in grammar and composition...
...Professor Volait will give a course on literary life in the nineteenth century. Professor Maurer will give a course which will consider the theory of translation, with its practical application in translating from English, German, and Russian into French. The other courses will give practice in composition and grammar...
...many had been reported to the committee on the basis of English papers and themes which had been written hurriedly in the classroom. Whether this fact should be taken into consideration or not is a question. Surely a man who has spent ten years or more in studying English grammar and composition ought to be able to write a page of simple, correct English in twenty minutes. Perhaps with most men it is merely carelessness, but it is just this carelessness which the proposed course in English will eradicate...
...operative in 1911. Experience seems to indicate the possible desirability of certain changes of detail, though not of principle. Among the changes suggested are a reduction in the total number of entrance examinations such as would be gained, for instance, by combining into one examination the separate tests in grammar, elementary prose composition, and Cicero and sight translation of prose, or by using the comprehensive papers which the University, Princeton, and Yale employ; a reduction in the amount of prescribed reading in Virgil and in Cicero with the provision that the prescribed portions of the text should be changed every...