Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...available in English. Beyond this practical consideration is the need to widen the intellectual horizon of the student through a mastery of the thought and expression of another race. More patent, perhaps, and more often questioned is the habit of mental exactness which the study of a foreign syntax develops. The present requirements fulfill all but the last of these needs very imperfectly; the standards of knowledge are not sufficiently advanced to insure command of any foreign language either as a tool to scholarship or as an independent intellectual experience...
John Peter Zenger could set up his stories in type far better than he could write them. But to Governor Cosby the facts of corruption and tyranny revealed were as awkward as Zenger's syntax. He had several numbers of the Journal publicly burned, threw John Peter Zenger into jail on a charge of seditious libel...
...personal evaluation made of the survivors. As the sole system in use, selective admission must lower standards, and the decline must be reflected in the secondary schools whose graduation requirements are already painfully lax. The present college courses which provide a wearying knowledge of elementary dates, elementary syntax, and even more elementary English composition are the result of that laxity, and would have to be even more extensively invoked...
...Dialectics, in philosophy, is the syntax of reason, the branch of logic which teaches the rules of reasoning. The connection with Mrs. Hutchins' drawings is obscure...
...Harlan Michael Levin Van Doren: Anthology of World Poetry Arnold George Malkan Walton: Compleat Angler Isadore Paisnor James: Charles W. Eliot Robert Chester Smith Whistler's Works Francis Van Vanice James: Charles W. Eliot Class of 1934 Henry Aranow Education of Henry Adams Milton Bornstein Combe: Tours of Dr. Syntax Harold Simson Cone Morison: Development of Harvard University Robert Calhoun Creel Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci William Frederick Ebling Sheridan: The Critic Edward Settle Godfrey Morison: Development of Harvard University Abraham Lincoln Gordon Life of Benvenuto Cellini Clement Lowell Harriss Carroll: Alice in Wonderland Isadore Herman Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress...