Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...several times Governor of Connecticut Colony; and on his return to England he was elected to Parliament and appointed Warden of the Fleet under Cromwell. His will expresses his desire "to give some encouragement in those foreign plantations, for the breeding up of hopeful youths, both at the grammar school and college, for the public service of the country in future times'; and his educational bequests to New England are of great importance. Part of the income of one of these bequests is used in the purchase of books called Deturs, for meritorious students in Harvard College...
...departments, studying the work of the same undergraduate in different courses and in different years. He has read 200 examination papers sent from England. This work has been carried on with a view to finding where lies the heaviest burden of fault, on the college, preparatory, or grammar school; and the mistakes in Harvard's method of teaching English...
...first, Mr. Castle says, "Surely the preparatory schools should assume the responsibility of teaching their students the simple rules of English grammar during a period when their minds are most capable of assimilating those rules. . . . Apparently we must take over a large part of the burden, although we never can do it with the full success that the elementary schools could have...
...study open to Harvard undergraduates, the student can go as fast and as far as he pleases. To this there is one notable exception in the case of English Composition, perhaps the most fundamental and yet the most alighted study of the curriculum. Granting that the elements of grammar and decent writing can be learned only in the home and graded schools, there still remains a field for development of the ability to write the English language well which it is the duty of the college to cultivate. There are steps in the teaching of English as important...
...before it. The concensus of opinion, if there was any concensus at all, of the letters which followed Mr. Bok's attack on colleges in the Outlook last summer was that the blame for poor English lay, not with the colleges directly, but with the preparatory and even grammar schools. It is true that it was generally believed that colleges were tending to encourage other studies at the expense of English, but, as far as the principles of English technique were concerned, all the writers seemed to agree that they should be acquired before men enter college. That...