Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school superintendents then persuaded President Hoover to request all the 48 Governors to have their school superintendents select a boy and girl "of at least grammar school age and mentally adapted to the test," send them to Washington. All except Washington's Governor Roland H. Hartley complied. Governor Hartley said: "One of America's alarming problems is the mounting cost of public education. . . . The thought of adding to the unbearable burden by the addition of talking movies ... is inconceivable. . . . Innovations already introduced have undermined the quality of education . . . amply proved the policy of spoon feeding...
...failed in an eligibility examination last month. Irvington needed 20 teachers. Robert Lee Saunders, superintendent of schools, sent notices to normal schools throughout the East. Came 114 young ladies, two young men, all properly quali- fied graduates, to take a five-hour test in spelling, punctuation and diction, grammar and composition, and arithmetic. All failed in the requirement: to pass all four sections with a grade of 75%. Only two made a general average of more than 75%. All agreed that the examination was "pretty stiff." Particularly stiff was the arithmetic section which all flunked with an average grade...
...Under this plan public schools operate 48 weeks per year. Work, study and play are joined together as one educational unit. The school plant combines classrooms, playgrounds, gardens, workshops, library and social centre. High-school subjects are started in grammar school. The school capacity is doubled by operating on an 8-hour day with indoor and outdoor activities conducted simultaneously. Critics once loudly complained that this school system was arranged by the efficient Steel Corp. to meet the domestic needs of employes who used to work 12 hr. per day in the mills...
...such quizzes are fascinating, whether of the exam or "Ask me another" type. How many know this introduction, which is to appear in a prominent new English grammar book as a sample of beautiful writing: "The earth sighed as it turned on its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides...
When it was pointed out to Mr. Farrell that he had spoken in public session, he consented to publication of his remarks, asking only for the privilege of making some corrections of grammar. Much of what he said could not be understood by the public when it appeared in print, for Mr. Farrell spoke with mill terms as well as mill frankness. But his big points were dramatically clear, namely: 1) That steel companies are engaged in a mean and vicious war of price-cutting; 2) that buyers of steel (e. g. the automobile manufacturers) are demoralizing he industry...