Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teachers tackled the question of just how much vocational training should be given high-school students who will not go on to college. Since the techniques of industry change so rapidly, said the committee, probably the best vocational education is the least vocational. Recommended basic curriculum: "English (literature, composition, grammar) throughout the four years; two years of history ; a year of plane geometry and one year of elementary algebra; a year of biology and at least one year of a physical science; an opportunity to elect trigonometry and solid geometry and a second year of physical science; music...
Crimson freshmen will travel to New Haven this Saturday to fence a strong Hopkins Grammar squad...
...minutes they learned the complete grammar of the international language from Graham E. Fuller '59. Within 45 minutes the linguists were all back out in the cold Cambridge air, prepared to chirp, "Cu vi parolas esperante?" to shivering policemen...
...rush of words well in short, clear sentences. Despite the repulsive midden from her imagination, there is a kind of dirty-faced innocence about the book, and an undeniable storytelling ability. Half-illiterate when she wrote the novel, Berthe Grimault had help from a village postmaster who barbered the grammar, laundered the sex. Currently, a proper laundering is in process: at the Grove, a British finishing school, the staff is trying to get Berthe to behave as if she were less familiar with country matters...
...best lines stand out too conspicuously, or more often remain submerged in the gray sounds of grammar and they must be hunted for. One has the feeling that the poet is mumbling to himself. The absence of an audience is also implied by the almost total lack of humor despite the title of the poem...