Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amount of posing could have built and maintained for Stokowski the sound prestige which he has everywhere. This he owes to the great mental energy which years ago made him learn German, unaided, from a grammar; which on his recent Oriental tour led him to travel for weeks under the most primitive conditions to listen to native music unadorned; which enables him so to concentrate on his music that in his concerts he never needs a score. In matters musical no one can exceed Stokowski's capacity for work. Nor has anyone maintained toward music a more open mind...
...fact that they have not lived up to their avowed purpose. In their attempt to instill a good lingual foundation, the language requirements have succeeded in annoying some, placing others unfairly on probation, and acquainting the majority with English translations of fairy tales and a few erroneous fragments of grammar. An elementary introduction to a language is almost valueless, and it is hard to see how French 2 or its like can inculcate a reading knowledge. The present system takes the student's attention from the studies where his interests lie to the least stimulating courses offered by the College...
...above strictures, however, as to elementary languages as taught in Harvard College do not apply to the more advanced courses, where the literature is studied by university methods rather than the grammar by second-rate high school instruction. Of course, the College must continue to offer elementary language courses, which will be then confined to at least nominally interested students, without the bored and hampered clutter of dean-driven sufferers. But although French 2, which would be abolished under the proposed scheme, and German A, which would be confined to pupils for scientific or cultural reasons interested in beginning...
...weeks later with a paper written by him and headed: "Charles Evans Hughes' Plan of Study." After that he was taken out of school, given home instruction by his parents. The family moved to Newark, N. J., then on to New York City where Charles attended "Old 35 Grammar School," wrote precocious essays on "The Evils of Light Literature," "The Limitation of the Human Mind...
Gary Cooper was born in Helena, Mont., but went to grammar school in England. When he was 13 he went back to Helena, attended high school there. One night he was smashed up in an automobile accident and for two years after that his father made him stay on the family ranch. When he got out of Grinnell College he drew cartoons for a Helena newspaper. He went to Los Angeles to be a commercial artist, began to hang around the offices of casting directors. He got parts in a few westerns and after a while his height...