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...astronomy for the third year. All this work was done in the morning hours. In the afternoon came philosophical disputations for each class in its own field of study ("every one in his art"). Four, Wednesday was Greek day for all classes. First-year men studied etymology and syntax in the forenoon and practiced the rules of grammar in the afternoon; the second class studied prosody and dialects from 9 to 10 a. m., and practiced in "Poesy" after dinner; third year men did likewise in the theory and practice of Greek composition, prose and verse. (5) Thursday was devoted...
...Americans, for those at least who pretend to be careful in their speech, it may be claimed that they offend no oftener than do their English cousins. Good, or what are called good, English writers say "different than," for which there appears no authority in either etymology or syntax. They persist in the use of "whilst" as firmly as they do in their spelling of "favour," labour," "honour" and "cheque." Whatever modifications in English orthography have been the result of a desire to expunge useless letters. The Englishman replies that in these cases we destroy all trace of the origin...
...extensive knowledge of ancient Greek. The director of the school, a man fifty years of age, is the leading Hellenist in America and England, a professor in Harvard University at Cambridge, translator of the Morals of Plutarch, author of a Greek grammar, of a most excellent work on the Syntax of the Greek Moods and Tenses, and of many other philological treatises.... The school, for the present, until it shall have erected its own building, has rented a newly repaired house near Hadrian's Gate and the Pillars of the Temple of Olympian Zeus. We heartily welcome the coming...
...president of Dartmouth College caught one of the students helping himself to wood from the presidential pile. 'Young man,' saith the venerable officer, 'what authority have you for taking away that wood?' To which the youthful rogue, mindful of his Latin syntax, replied, 'Opus and Usus, signifying 'need,' require the 'Ablative.' 'Take it, my son, take it,' said the old man; 'but when you have need again come to me and I will give you better authority than that...
...grammar will be explained, but elementary grammar as such will not be taught; that is, it will be taken for granted that the common forms and rules are known, but the reasons of various changes of form and the general laws that have given rise to special rules of syntax will be studied...