Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said, should be shunted off to special "research institutes," set free to explore "fundamental problems in metaphysics, social science, and natural science." President Hutchins also thought that universities in search of "clear and distinct ideas" might do well to revive the medieval schoolmen's trivium of rhetoric, grammar and logic, teach the young "the two most important elements of man as man, language and reason...
...easy field by its 135 concentrators this year. It has about 25 faculty men, of whom ten are professors and eight are instructors without being tutors. In spite of the name, Romance Languages resolves itself largely into a study of French with Italian and Spanish receiving attention mainly on grammar...
...Association's two-day meeting will begin tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in Agassiz Hall, Radcliffe, with the "Harvard Conference", sponsored jointly by the Harvard Teachers Association and the New England Association. Practical methods of teaching English composition, literature, grammar, and library use will be discussed...
...ground. Partisans might instance the tales of Foe, Wilkie Collins and Gaboriau, would certainly mention Dashiell Hammett, "Francis lies," Dorothy Sayers. While admitting that run-of-the-mine murder stories bear as little resemblance to reality as a crossword puzzle and are pieced together with as little regard for grammar and probability, they would point with pardonable pride to such a book as Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Night. Gaudy Night is not such a gaudy title as might be supposed. It refers to an Oxford colloquialism, "gaudy" (from Gaudeamus igitur), which is the equivalent of the U. S. "college reunion...
...question of elementary courses in French and German has been fairly and squarely tackled, and the result shows unusual foresight into the problems confronting the average student. The Committee has recognized that what is often most needed is stress on a definite phase of elementary training, such as reading, grammar or composition. Until these fundamentals are instilled in a student, the great value of a survey course is lost. With this in mind, it has rearranged the "groundwork" courses so that every branch of this training will be given in the future, thus permitting men to develop those fields...