Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with this type of self-constituted critic. Mr. Dowse's letter is full of glaring errors and stupidities. For example, he alludes to TIME as being "typically American, quaintly ungrammatical." It is obvious that he knows nothing of Amer. or of the study of language, for the English grammar used in this country is far more nearly accurate, and infinitely less crude and vulgar, than that used by the corresponding classes in England. H. L. Mencken proves this point thoroughly in his masterly study The American Language -if, indeed, it needs proving, which it does not. The lowest...
Exeter carried off the team championship honors, with a score of 10 points, with Columbia Grammar, Newton High School, and New Preparatory School tied for second place with 8 Andover trailed with 6. This marks the second successive year that Exeter has won the team title, and that Columbia Grammar has claimed the individual winner. Last year Julius Seligsen took the laurels, after defeating Shields in the semi-final round...
...phrases which so completely violate the principles of correct grammar as "He don't" are to become permissible in good usage, purists and scholars may indeed mourn the loss of a great battle in their age long fight against popular ignorance and carelessness. And America, often belittled by foreigners as a land of little culture and less scholarship, will be quite defenceless against the jibes of its European detractors...
...Sterling Law buildings will occupy the entire block bounded by Wall, High, Grove and York Streets. The old Hopkins Grammar School, now called Hopkins Hall, will be razed to make way for the new structure. The buildings will be Gothic in style, harmonizing with the Memorial Quadrangle and the Sterling Memorial Library, next to which they will stand. Three large open courts will occupy the center of the block. In one of them a small building providing temporary quarters for distinguished visitors to the School will be erected...
...Pineville, La., waters lapped toward the grammar school. Elmo Rich, 11, waded in them, stepped into a deep hole, drowned...