Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading of boys clubs and boy scouts troops, the giving of entertainments and speaking on topics of interest at community and settlement houses, assisting with the probation work of the Cambridge Juvenile Court, and teaching of classes in subjects varying from grammar school to college difficulty are included in the activities of the workers...
...unanimous decision of university authorities a lumber jack forty-two years of age--an engineering student in the University of Washington whose education until a year ago was confined to the seventh grade of an Irish grammar school--was termed one of the twenty-five most brilliant minds in the United States. This honor was conferred upon him as a result of making a perfect score in the army "alpha" intelligence test. He required only thirteen of the seventeen minutes allowed to complete the test, a feat which was une ualed by any of the 3,000,000 service...
...athletes, representing 400 colleges and schools of the United States will enter the annual relay carnival of the University of Pennsylvania, to be held at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, on April 29 and 30. The latest figures show that 104 colleges, 128 high schools, 54 preparatory schools, 78 grammar schools, and 17 parochial institutions, a total of 381, have entered teams. This number is increasing daily and it is confidently expected that when the entries close Friday more than 400 will have entered teams...
...Edward Hopkins, a London merchant, who was several times Governor of Connecticut Colony in the 17th century, and later 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...
...game. Soccer, or Association football, was introduced and developed in this country mostly around manufacturing centers by British-American employees of factories, etc., for the last decade, however, it has been taken up a great deal, especially in New York and Pennsylvania states, by the native American in grammar, high and private schools, colleges and various athletic organizations. University of Pennsylvania, for instance, this fall had four teams on its squad all season, here at Harvard we had sixty men report for the sport this fall...