Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON of February 1 there appeared a letter laying the blame for the decrease in interest in the Classics at the door of the department on the ground that too much attention is paid to the mechanical work of grammar and translation. The author closed with the statement that if the Classics are to regain their old popularity they must be studies "as the modern languages...
Though many a motorist fears to help them hitchhike, no half-wild bandits like Russia's besprizorni are the footloose U. S. youngsters. Most of them have had grammar or high-school education. Some are adventurous runaways. Most have been squeezed out by family want. They despise professional hoboes. Pride keeps many away from welfare houses. A Michigan boy finished barber college after his parents died in 1929, found Michigan had loo many barbers already, took to the road. Too proud to beg, he made $3 carry him 2,000 mi. and eleven days. He explained...
...help these poor students; it's so hard they've tried! "If we don't fix on something, they surely won't pass, "And then if they don't, why the teacher's an ass! "We don't want to teach grammar, and what-shall we do If we don't take good care that these dunces get through? " Look here," says the chairman, and beams through his beard, I've got the idea;" through his glasses he seared All dissenters. "Hey! Silence! Now listen, youse guys, "Pay attention a minute...
...clear that these courses deal primarily with grammar and translation; several courses in the other languages which are counted for the literature requirement likewise overstress linguistics. It is obvious that an understanding of the grammar and vocabulary of a language is a necessary prerequisite to a literary appreciation of works read in that language, but the "language requirements" are designed to assure that the student has acquired these elements before his graduation The true appreciation of a literature must include the understanding and enjoyment of the work in the whole and of the literature in its historical and humanistic relations...
...teachers in all our public schools-more particularly our high schools-first learn grammar, then teach it; and they will not have to lower the nation's standards in order to justify their own "better middle class" speech...