Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difference between English 1 and Comp. Lit. 42a and 42b is, for the average honors candidate in English, inconsequential. The latter discusses pre-Shakespearean literature, devoting two or three weeks to Chaucer. The former spends most of its time on Chaucer, with detail of his grammar and allusion, and adds about a month (Fridays during the second half) for reviewing other Middle English writers. Although required only for honors candidates, either of the courses presumably gives enough information for an answer to the first Divisional question. For this reason, both are large courses...
...course in Beowulf, 3a is indispensable. To complete one's study of Old English with it, however, is analogous to leaving Latin with Caesar. It is an elementary course concerned mainly with the reading of prose varied by the often delightful and always illuminating comments of Mr. Magoun. The grammar, one of the simplest, is covered at almost breakneck speed and the reading begun before the student has mastered more than the demonstrative paradigm and the representative strong verbs. That reading consists largely of selections from the chronicles, touchdowns and lives of the saints with an occasional smattering of verse...
...curriculum of "projects" is often questioned. The ideals of progressive education seem to be as vague and the reforms as necessary as Professor Dewey left them many years ago, but the faults of the system have been largely discovered by now. The dependency of the success of these joyous grammar schools on the personal attributes of the teachers, the ease of loafing, the tendency for children to turn to various forms of artistic self-expression without finishing what they have started, a form of child dilettantism; the need of occasional old-fashioned and naturally irritating bouts with grammar and algebra...
...addition to these practical lessons, the following classroom subjects are taught: mathematics, physics, political economy, current politics, history of class struggle, Russian grammar, English, chemistry, anatomy, hygiene and sanitation, history of the theater and circus, literature and military training...
...group of mothers in Scarsdale, N. Y. last week set out to do something about the radio programs to which their children listen. They had no new kind of program to suggest but they bitterly declared that present programs "shatter nerves, stimulate emotions of horror, and teach bad grammar." They put their case before that great pedagogical clearing house, Teachers College at Columbia University. They got the United Parents Association to put mental hygienists on the subject. They voted, and took votes among their children, on their preferences among radio-broadcasts aired between...