Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Many students, however, write bad English because of sheer ignorance. Errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure abound; students who have been warned several times continue to betray the influence of bad school training and years of indifference. It is significant to note that whereas of all students in the College who take or who have taken English A or English D approximately 8.5 per cent. have been reported to the committee, no less than 24 per cent. have been reported of those students who have been admitted as "unclassified" from other institutions and who have been exempted from...
...course running shoes, board and cinder tracks, take-off boards for the broad-jump, poles for the pole-vault, and the system of coaching have all been improved and necessarily have a bearing upon these records. Yet, by merely glancing at them, it may be seen that even grammar school boys of today could compete with the University record holders of 1875. Moreover, these records run on such a poor average that it would be possible for any all-round track athlete to break every one of the records in a single afternoon...
...Advocate offers a variety of attractions for its readers in the current issue, although the art of writing editorials has yet to be acquired with further experience of the joys of editorship. The first one is righteously indignant with the Boston American's attack on President Lowell, but its grammar is defective, and it fails to accomplish its object, for like the paper mentioned it "does not argue, it states." Again, sententia, if the editors really insist on using a Latin word where an English one does better, is a word of the first deciension (sententia, ae, like mensa...
...Board of Overseers, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has appointed a "Committee on the Use of English by Students," to raise the standard of English used by undergraduates in courses out side the English Department. The subject was brought into prominened by certain breaches of English grammar discovered in examination papers. It is the object of this committee to remedy this situation and improve the general tone of the language used by undergraduates in their everyday class work. Hereafter any glaring breaches of good usage in written papers will be reported by the instructors to the Secretary...
...last of the qualifying examinations for the Rhodes scholarships will be held in Room 208 of the Administration Building of the Medical School today as follows: 9 to 11, translation of Greek into English; 1 to 2, Latin Grammar; 2.10 to 3.10, Greek Grammar; 4 to 6, Algebra and Geometry. A fee of $5 must have been paid to the supervising examiner before the examination. This fee is necessary in order to meet the local expenses of examination and selection...