Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love affairs, his inconsequential pokings at life with a stick, fail to acquire emotional value or intensity by virtue of the magenta draperies which muffle the recital. Yet when Author Stern comes to realize that writing prose does not necessarily demand substitution of fervent ellipsis for sound and conventional grammar, she may well write a good book...
...wonder how the youthful Nebraskans are to be instructed in the proper sense of the dignity of honest labor. Will they be shown what ravages idleness wrecked on the civilizations of antiquity, or will they by any chance be taught to learn the next day's grammar and arithmetic and history a little more thoroughly than under the old regime of the immorality and vice...
...when Edward Hopkins, a London merchant who came to America, and who was several times Governor of the Connecticut Colony, made important educational be quests to New England in order "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. The Detur prizes are among the oldest to be given at Harvard...
...money is put in a school fund. Fines for talking in class, gum-chewing, untidiness swell the total but violated grammar is chief source of revenue. Like any system, there is a defect. Thrifty pupils come to regard bad grammar as a luxury. Said a seven-year-old economist: "Sure, I use bad grammar, but I wait till I'm out in the street, see?" Said a self-indulgent eight-year-old, displaying a dime: "Momma give me two ain'ts for my birthday...
...rarest feature of the exhibition is two leaves from an ancient Latin grammar, one of the first text books printed in England. The only other remnants of this early edition known to be extant, are two similar leaves now in the keeping of the British Museum...