Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wisconsin a twelve-week course in auto mechanics, open to grammar school graduates over 18 years of age, has been developed as a result of the auto course given to about 700 soldiers in the Students' Army Training Corps. It is now beginning its second session. A semi-weekly lecture course in the problems of peace, a course in which about 600 are enrolled, has succeeded the war lecture course which was given during...
...military academies, it is regrettable, however inevitable it may be. As all men are probably now to be drafted on reaching twenty-one, the Government will be taking time by the forelock. We hope, however, that the plan will stop there and not be carried into the high and grammar schools. In this connection it is interesting to note that the British Government, despite the strain upon it, has definitely and finally refused to allow military training in its schools. Replying to a deputation of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the President of the Board of Education declared that...
...instruction will be given by members of the Museum staff, assisted by State teachers, who are specialists in bird-life and forestry. The courses, briefly, will be on "nature studies," and the children most benefitted by them will be mainly from the fourth through the seventh grades of grammar school...
...Union's schedule of classes will begin next Tuesday, October 16, but a full quota of teachers has not yet been enrolled. In all, 30 teachers as an absolute minimum are needed, and only 20 have volunteered. The directors are especially in need of men to teach elementary English grammar and composition. All men who are interested in this or any other form of teaching may report at Phillips Brooks House or to R. H. Kettrick '20, the Educational Director of the Prospect Union...
These classes include reading, spelling, grammar, composition, arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, business English, business arithmetic, geography, penmanship, book-keeping, mechanical and freehand drawing, physics, electricity, and chemistry; shorthand and civil law and civics; French, German, Latin, and Greek; English literature, debating, public speaking, and argumentation; botany; singing; mandolin, piano and cornet; violin and harmony in connection with the orchestra. There will also be a special department in civil service that will fit students for all grades and classes of public service...