Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...degrees, and the other for C, D, and E students. The sections made up of the honor men would stress the literary side of the language and in addition have a weekly lecture in the course. The groups of inferior students, on the other hand, would concentrate on French grammar and as much composition as the instructor thinks feasible...
...resulting course be organized as follows: sections until November hours; after November, the sections be divided into Honor men, and C, D, and E men, the honor group emphasizing especially literary considerations, with one general lecture a week, and the C, D, and E men continuing the training in grammar...
...best elements of both. This course, partly literary and partly a training in writing, is to be required for all freshmen taking lower than 75 on the College Board examinations, and for those who have been admitted from the first seventh of their school class. The training in grammar and writing is to be given in the weekly sections, and the literary part of the course in the lectures...
...Flegenheimer went on trial last week at Syracuse, N. Y. for evading $92,103.34 in income taxes on $481,637.35 made in 1929-31 from "various unlawful business enterprises and rackets," he volunteered to reporters a partial biography. He is 33, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left alive or at liberty...
...years his junior, with a ball made out of yarn wrapped around a stone. He threw stones at squirrels until his aim was deadly. By the time he was 12, he was invited to pitch for the baseball team of a nearby high school which, because he had left grammar school after the fourth grade, he was too ignorant to attend. At 16, he enlisted in the Army, got his first pair of shoes, pitched for his post team. At 18, he was hired to read gas meters for San Antonio Public Service Co., pitch for their baseball team...