Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...data from school records presents a much more definite and verifiable conclusion, viz., that the use of tobacco has distinctly harmful effects on the work of immature boys in grammar and high school, and to a lesser extent in college. Whether the effect is physiological or the product of other factors, such as idleness, social distraction, etc., is impossible to determine, but the accumulation of academic records from numerous sources leaves no doubt of the fact...
...preparation for mastering, in the professional schools, facts and theories of lasting importance, as you put it in your editorial of June 11, represents, undoubtedly, the current undergraduate point of view. And yet the facts acquired in college ought to be quite as important as those acquired in the grammar schools and distinctly as important, both from the cultural and practical point of view, as any acquired in the professional schools. That literature, the classics, philosophy, history may have a permanent value in themselves scarcely needs an argument and is brought forcibly home to anyone who comes in contact with...
...subscribe what course a college publication should follow in filling its columns. I am not a college man, and can scarcely call myself educated in the routine sense since I spent but eighteen months in the high school at Norway, Maine, and no time at all in elementary or grammar grades. The investment of the family resources in a country newspaper kept me from college...
...Claude H. Van Tyne, of the University of Michigan: "Our United States" by William B. Guitteau, director of schools at Toledo; "Burke's Speech on Conciliation", edited by O. H. Ward, of the Taft School: "Short American History by Grades" by Everett Barnes of Brooklyn: and "American History for Grammar Grades", also by Mr. Barnes
...eugenics movement founded by Francis Galton, professor of applied mathematics at University College, London, Director of the Galton Laboratory there. He has built up almost single-handed the modern science of higher statistics, including the coefficient of correlation, and is editor of Biometrika. One of his greatest works, The Grammar of Science, is the Bible of statisticians and exact scientists. Presumably he hopes to make the Darwin property another such intellectual center as he has founded in London...