Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...minute study of a limited number of works with due deference to grammar. But during the last two years, instead of having an opportunity to widen his personal knowledge of Greek plays or of Latin poetry, he is obliged to devote his energies to text criticism and details of syntax of a few specimens of literature. This system practically makes wide reading an impossibility. A student has but little time for outside work, and thus graduates even with honors in classics, without having read one half of the Greek drama. Consequently he finds himself far behind English or German young...