Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tommorrow.-9 to 11, translation of Greek into English; 1 to 2, Latin grammar; 2.10 to 3.10, Greek grammar; 4 to 6, Algebra or Geometry...
...examinations cover the following subjects: Arithmetic; either the elements of Algebra or 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...
Wednesday, October 6--9 to 11, translation of Greek into English; 1 to 2, Latin grammar; 2.10 to 3.10, Greek grammar; 4 to 6, Algebra or Geometry...
...reading the article in the CRIMSON on "Illiterate Collegians" you ask "Who is to blame?" Allow me to write and even if I am a poor ignorant woman that left school in the sixth grade of the "Grammar School" to earn my own living so please pardon my ignorance. Before my son went to Harvard I have heard several times of young men that did not make good, that in some cases Harvard turns out "educated fools." Well, I worked hard for twenty years to send my son to Harvard feeling that where I had nothing in the line...
...found that about 60 men in each class were unable to swim at all and about 100 were poor swimmers and from this it was thought expedient to introduce some rule to overcome this. In England, Germany, and Austria, swimming is included in the requirements in high schools and grammar schools, and this regulation by Princeton is interesting in that it is one of the first steps toward compulsory swimming instruction in this country...