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...Instead of beginning with Silas Marner and going on to Shakespeare, a modern high-school English course is likely to start with a study of magazines, then proceed to "units of study" on the U.S. language (what it is, how it changes). Its textbooks include fewer long classics, more anthologies...
...Clark Gable. Other major MGM ventures will be Girl of the Golden West (Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy) ; The Return of the Thin Man (William Powell and Myrna Loy). Total MGM product will be 52 pictures at the most. On MGM's list but not yet assigned are Silas Marner, As Thousands Cheer, Tish, Bright Girl, Pride and Prejudice...
...benefits in that system. Yet, when there are so many facts to be learned by heart, certain details to be harped on endlessly, teaching becomes as soulless as was the music at an old silent movie. For example, in the Old Plan Restrictive English Examination, grammatical rules. MacBeth, Silas Marner, Burke's Conciliation and few others are carefully memorized and then like trained animals the students perform them for the examination. For all the examiner could tell, these seven or eight books might be all the pupil had ever read...
...country life to the wretchedness beneath. "The Mill on the Floss" and "Adam Bede", dealing with English life an with people whom the author knew, are analyzed clearly in Miss Haldane's book, and recommended as the best for the casual reader whose acquaince is limited to "Silas Marner...
...would go on to Part 2, question 7, on nineteenth century English authors and tell why Silas Marner never went to sea, and why his daughter Eppie really was not the salt of the earth, but I don't consider it worth while. I should also like to make a few remarks on Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd," but I might be tempted to make a pun. Meanwhile the dumb-looking youth next to me will be calling for his fifth blue book so that he can tell all of Gore Hall at dinner this noon how much...