Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seventeen, preacher to "the politest congregation in Boston" at twenty-one, and ultimately president of Harvard, was the first American to earn the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Germany. His studies in his second year at Goettingen he lists as Roman Law, Archacology, Ciccro's de Oratore, Greek syntax and meters, Greek and Latin Composition, Latin conversation, French, and Italian, Riding and dancing, he adds, are "pursued at odd intervals." Yet, he says, "All the students here who pass for diligent hear far more lecturing than I. Cogswell hears 8 courses daily." We see George Bancroft, fresh from college...
...convincing way the limitations that educational systems and formal requirements have placed upon the acquisition of an education that stresses individual creativeness and originality. To illustrate his ideas he tells the story of a student who came to his office once to enquire about some question of syntax. Instead of answering the question directly Professor Hillyer launched into a discussion of the beauties of Mackail's translations from the Greek anthology. He was rudely awakened, he says, by an efficient voice that demanded a direct answer to what seemed to the student a momentous question. "I cannot doubt." says Professor...
...David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer is a British linguist and retired Indian Army officer who has published several scholarly papers on the phonology and syntax of Persian dialects. Last summer Lieut.-Colonel Lorimer left England to spend a year and a half with the Burushu people in the mountainous north corner of India and round out an exhaustive study of their language, customs, origin. Unruly, boisterous, athletic, the 17,600 Burushu are not much like their lackadaisical neighbors of India's plains and valleys. They speak a queer, syntactically complex language called Burushaski, with no less than four genders. Lieut...
Last week Dean Robert Kilburn Root announced that, beginning next autumn, Princeton will have a "hospital for the illiterate," listed in the catalog as "Corrective English." There the freshman whose back is stronger than his syntax will spend eight weeks. If still unable to write a "decent English sentence," he will repeat the course in second term. There will be two more chances in sophomore year. If he persists in failure, the halls of Princeton will see him no more...
...hopeful author and considerably deflate his ego. He will discover, however, that Mr. De Voto's bark is worse than his bite. Despite the wilting comments which decorate his themes the student will find his marks gradually improving, as he learns to purify his technique and eliminate errors of syntax which would, to quote an average comment, "disgrace a student in English...