Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interestingly enough, the offense was introduced by a pair of Canadian coaches while current Crimson coach Joe Restic perfected his system while also coaching in Canada. Cavileer calls Restic the "most imaginative" coach he's seen at Harvard. "You could say his attack has a lot of grammar in it," he notes impishly...
Wylie criticized present foreign language teaching, saying "We've stressed pronunciation, spelling and grammar. It would be better to teach rhythm" of the language, he added...
Legislative microphilia ranges well beyond an obsession with official totems and artifacts. One classic manifestation occurred this season in Colorado, where legislators climaxed their session with a mighty struggle over the apostrophe in Pike's Peak: for the benefit of constituents who had never come to terms with grammar, they outlawed the apostrophe. In Alabama, legislators reached the session's final day without action on a single major bill-but not without having played, once again, their recurring conflict with the capital city government over parking space for their cars. Idaho lawmakers, for their part, indulged...
...Caracas, Carter delighted an audience of several hundred at the airport with a short speech in halting Spanish. Venezuelans said his accent was terrible, but his grammar ,was good and his meaning was clear. "Viva Venezuela," he declared in winding up his remarks...
...quickly erode if their cultivation is left entirely to the freshman year. To avoid this problem, it will be necessary to offer ways of reinforcing these skills at later points in the undergraduate experience. Thus, we will need to encourage instructors to do more to point out errors of grammar, organization, and syntax in evaluating student papers, and we must find ways of providing added help to students with special writing problems. We should likewise make sure that other core courses embody levels of mathematical reasoning that will require students to apply what they have learned in meeting the minimum...