Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seniors are belatedly showing their own back-to-basics concern. Tod McConahay, who pumps gas five nights a week to save money for college, is taking English Lab, a brush-up grammar course, in addition to regular college prep courses. "Grammar?I just can't do it," he confesses. "Somewhere along the line, somebody screwed up." Classmate Jim Jordahl is also taking English Lab. "Deep down, most people feel that requirements should be stricter," he says. "If you leave what courses you take up to the school, you won't be that well...
...coexisted in Britain. Although some scholarships to private schools were historically available for lower-class students, there was no free secondary schooling at all prior to World War II. In 1944, Britain decreed a dual track of public education: "secondary modern" and technical schools for the less talented, and grammar schools-with stiff entrance exams-which educate...
...matter of a football game. Harvard and Dartmouth are both 2-0 in the Ivies and this game is pivotal for both teams and it's also very important and significant. (B) Verbose. It seems that the offense have jelled after last week's performance at Cornell. (C) Bad grammar...
William overcomes all the stumbling blocks created for men raised in mining districts. His father tutors him for a scholarship exam to go to a better grammar school in order to escape the treadmill of working class education. He attends a military school at the age of 14, already a "sowjer" and at 18 enlists for 21 years...
...tough for a kid to come into that situation and do the job," Restic said. "It's like someone trying to do the work at Harvard when he's just gotten out of grammar school. But when you're struggling in one area like that, you just can't afford to make any mistakes." But that's exactly what Harvard did, turning the ball over six times...