Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Individual" by a Sharrel Keyes of Randolph Macon Woman's College. It is possible to determine that Miss Keyes rejects vocationalism, but otherwise it is a little hard to determine what sort of education she is talking about. She emphasized the importance of "spelling, mathematics, geography, and grammar," and then states the educated man "would find that mathematics and philosophy are not such strange bed-fellows and that Buddha's teachings can have meaning for the twentieth century American." He will also have "freed himself from the concept of utility." All of this sounds very nice, on first reading...
...Soviet Union, financed by the United States, and fueled with the wine of Grand Fenwick. But the story isn't crucial; it's simply an excuse for a machine-gun-fast series of gags satirizing such juicy targets as international diplomacy, German scientists, student peace marchers, and American grammar...
...solve, at least to understand problems. Present-day Oxford philosophers have little patience with the philosophers of the past who wrestled mightily with ethics, metaphysics and transcendental abstractions. As one thinker explained to Ved Mehta: "Why bother listening to men whose problems arose from bad grammar?" Ved Mehta sums up: Once philosophers asked "What is truth?" Now they say, "Look at all the different ways the word true is used in ordinary speech." All these ways summed up is all that can be known of truth...
Robert H. Spaethling, Assistant Professor of German and head of German A, disagreed with the recommendations of the report. He said that grammar cannot be taught abstractly "without knowing anything of the language beforehand." Although Spaethling did not object in principle to occasional lectures, he said that they would be "premature" if used to begin instruction...
Slavic A, the beginning course in Russian, is heavily criticized by the committee for its lack of conversational practice. The report also suggests that lectures would make the presentation of grammar more uniform, saving much of the time "wasted in sections by students not understanding the grammar...