Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will "stand on their own feet." It might have been added that first they must find foot to stand on. There was indeed a glory in Greece and a grandeur in Rome. But this glory and this grandeur have been hidden under a dead weight of Greek and Latin grammar. If we may suppose that some day a method will be found of imparting an agility in the use of these languages, with at the same time a just and unsentimental appreciation of the cultures they represent, there will be rejoicing among a certain small class of university students...
...nurses, jump on them. They smashed shopwindows to get at cakes. At Trinity College, Oxford, young Richard got into plenty of trouble, was "sent down" after two stormy years. But his interest had already fastened on Oriental languages which he studied by himself with no other help than a grammar and dictionary. "He used to say that when he set out to acquire a language, he learned swear words and after that the rest was easy." Burton was big, bearded, muscular. When he took up fencing it was in no garden-party spirit; he became one of the foremost swordsmen...
...William Rothenstein (knighted last year) was born in Yorkshire in 1872, the son of a prosperous cloth merchant. At the age of 16 he left grammar school to be an artist, studied at the Slade School in London under Alphonse Legros, a meticulous draughtsman and a pupil of Ingres. The Ingres-Legros influence is still obvious in Rothenstein's drawing. A preternaturally solemn youth of 17 in a long black frock coat, he went to Paris to enter the Academic Julian...
...often regretted by old-time Alumni that the thorough-going drill in English composition which was formerly administered at Harvard should have been forcibly replaced by other considerations of the modern curriculum. At all events the maltreatment of grammar and frequent misspellings which occur on college papers today would seem to justify a great deal of adverse criticism, which any lingering influence of English A can hardly overcome. The publication of theses, however, might well act as an agent toward improving the presentation of subjects by aspiring undergraduates. This is especially true of such fields as Science or Economics where...
...Council of Learned Societies a group of scholars met at Yale two years ago to consider the plan. Within the next two years the work for Southern New England is expected to be completed. A questionnaire has been prepared through which field workers will collect characteristic facts of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, to establish dialectic differences. In addition speech records will be taken...