Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head start in the struggle for existence. Classes in stenography, carpentry, bookkeeping, and so forth, however inappropriate for the prospective college man, are necessary for these others. If the high school failed to present technical courses, many would have to begin to learn a trade immediately after leaving grammar school, and so would be deprived of the cultural courses which are presented simultaneously with the others...
Furthermore, education has become a profession. The days of the little Red Schoolhouse with its primary, grammar, and high schools rolled into one are past. In the interest of greater efficiency division of labor has entered the field of education and divided it up into separate units. Accordingly, there must be some general rule under which the teaching is done in each division in order that a coordinated system may be formed and the student's education advanced smoothly from one step to the next. These general theories must be learned by the teacher just as the lawyer must know...
...completion of a Bibliography of John Greenleaf Whittier; Professors W. S. Ferguson, for the publication of "The Treasurers of Athena"; J. D. M: Ford, for the publication of a Bibliography of Cervantes, for continuing his work of the Harvard Council on Hispano-American Studies, for the preparation of a Grammar of Old French...
...Raphael, for the publication of a Rumanian Grammar and Chrestomathy; Professor George B. Weston, to aid in the preparation for publication of a two-volume collection of Italian Satirists of the Seventeenth Century: Dean A. F. Whittem, for consulting, in France and Spain, works of certain French and Spanish fabulists, or material concerning them; Assistant Dean G. K. Zipf. for the publication of results of investigation of Pekingese Chinese, and for further work in obtaining data for an article on Syntax and Semantic Change and a contemplated volume on the relativity of human speech...
Racketeer-in-chief Capone spent eight years in public grammar school in Brooklyn, N. Y. His progress was normal...