Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...events of the first group will be demonstrated the games which the children of the various grades of the grammar schools are being taught in the way of physical culture...
There will be races in throwing beanbags, races with flags, races with medicine balls, races to set up candle pins, combination running and tossing races, potato races, in fact, every sort of race that is common in the grammar schools. In addition the girls of the high schools will hold an interclass meet in which there will be similar races and exhibitions of folk dancing. The class winning this meet will receive medals...
...rest of the day will be given up to demonstrations of class drills by the grammar school grades and by the girls in the high schools. The exercises will end with exhibitions of folk dancing by groups of ten from the various grades
...must all commentators scrupulously overlook the glaring fact that undergraduates from public schools are intellectually a picked lot, and that undergraduates from private schools have been subject to no selective process whatever? A small proportion of grammar school boys go on to high school. A majority of those who take this step are better equipped intellectually than those who do not. Again, among high school graduates, only a fraction (large or small) go on to college. Here too the little band that progresses includes the intellectually foremost. The result is that those high school graduates who get John Harvard...
...Grammar School...