Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...department; he has also served as chairman of the Division of Modern Languages, and chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature. The wide scope of his writings is noteworthy, covering the entire field of English Literature from Philological Studies of Norse and Old English down to modern grammar...
...course in Boowulf, 3a in 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, loechdoms, and lives of the saints with an occasional smattering of verse...
...read inscriptions, tags, and bon mots, but it can certainly not give the student a literary appreciation of it. The supposition that after a student has an elementary knowledge, he will continue the study of it by himself has proved to be utopian. A single year spent in learning grammar and syntax thus has frequently had no fruits beyond conformity with University Hall regulations...
...Chinese clerk with a grammar school education...
...Detur prize books are given on the foundation of Edward Hopkins, who was born in 1600, and came to New England in 1637. His will expresses his desire to "give some encouragement in those foreign plantations, for the breeding up of hopeful youths, both at the grammar school and college, for the public service of the country in future times." The prizes are awarded to every student in the College who wins a scholarship in the first group for the first time; likewise one is given to every graduate who was awarded an A.B. or an S.B. summan cum laude...