Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Payson Smith, state commissioner of education, that modern subjects are more essential than "sixteenth century subjects" because they "represent the needs of a modern child in a modern world." Going further, he declared that music, art, manual training, vocational and physical education should be stressed; and that English grammar and composition are far more important than Latin, Greek, or any of the modern languages. Apparently Dr. Smith is speaking in rebuttal of the recent attacks on the "frills" of modern education...
...student who is without credit in Latin or Greek but who wishes to receive the Bachelorship of Arts usually resorts to a hurried preparation for his examination during one or two summers, learning only the essentials of grammar, almost nothing of the literature, and forgetting both once he has handed in his paper. Even if he meets the requirement in regular college courses, he scarcely acquires a sufficient basis for further reading or study. Preparation in school, which the Committee on Admissions accepts so unquestioningly, does not provide classical training of any weight. Hence this part of the student...
...sign "Is It Pleasing to God?" in his room at Brown University, spent a year and a half in traveling to Burma. Ordained a Congregationalist, he espoused baptism by immersion, became an independent missionary, finally received full Baptist support. He translated the Bible into Burmese, compiled a Burmese grammar and dictionary, suffered in prison, lived for a time in an empty lion's cage with a testament for his pillow, died at sea after building 63 churches and 163 missions, baptizing 7,000 heathen in 37 years...
...tedious subjects taught in grammar school, few are duller or more irksome than penmanship. Nevertheless it has always been taught on the presumption that good legible hand writing can be learned in no other way. Last week this theory was flouted (as at a psychologists' meeting was flouted the more modern theory that punishment is bad for chil dren-see p. 22) by Dr. Ralph Haefner of Columbia University in a book* based upon studies by Dr. Benjamin De Kalbe Wood of Columbia and Dr. Frank Nugent Freeman of the University of Chicago. For two years these pedagogs experimented...
After this second death, Mr. Carroll left grammar school and was paid 6? an hour for "picking codfish sounds." The sound is the fish's air bladder which, ripped from the backbone, dried and cured, makes isinglass. Later he went to work for Slade Gorton, a pop-eyed man as round as a hogshead who had been one of the founders of Slade Gorton & Co. in 1849. When he was 16 Tom Carroll was considered experienced enough to split fish. Then he became a skinner, ripping the parchment-like skin from dried fish. The skin is used largely...