Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Record," Headline speech of the dinner was. of course, by Mr. Smith. His delivery, even down to slips of grammar, had hardly changed a whit since the 1928 campaign. He asked questions for him self to answer, made repeated references to "the record." The crowd was uproariously with him from the beginning. Excerpts...
Equality, Democracy, Literacy, says Professor Nock, are the bases of U. S. education-all of them misinterpreted today. Equality, to the masses, means that all people are educable. Democrat Thomas Jefferson realized that this is not so when he planned 20 grammar schools in Virginia, in each of which only one student per class would be allowed to remain a full six years, so that "20 of the best geniuses shall be raked from the rubbish annually." Out of these 20, only ten would be allowed to go to William & Mary College. But the Jefferson plan was not followed...
Errett Cord is 37. slim, medium height with brown hair and eyes. Except when he puts on his steel spectacles and looks like a young college professor he is undistinguished. He is a voluble talker with small regard for grammar and no qualm about profanity. He pays small attention to the detail of his business but thinks and talks plans and policies incessantly. He and his whole company believe in using the telephone long & often. The company's bill sometimes runs between $15,000 and $20.000 a month. Mr. Cord's right-hand man is tall, blond Lucius B. Manning...
...formed John Adams was being boomed for the second U. S. President; the Fourth of July was the 20th anniversary of independence. President of the bank was Thomas James Carroll, 64, also president and general manager of Gorton-Pew Fisheries, wholesalers of salted and canned fish. He left grammar school when his fisherman father was lost...
Like all dissertations upon secondary education, the article contains many arguments that are valid. But the author is writing too frequently from the bias of his profession. He hopes to inculcate a thorough knowledge of English Grammar in a boy which in itself is a laudable ideal, at the expense of foreign languages. In defense of this tenet the lawyer cites the elementary language courses at all universities which are more repetitions of a secondary preparation. The time spent on these subjects would be better applied to the Mother tongue in view of the collegiate regurgitation. What Mr. Morawetz...