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...recitation in English 5 next Friday, Professor Hill will give out the marks for the past half year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/19/1884 | See Source »

...grammar will out. When Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune, was in college, he revealed an unusual zeal in mastering the difficulties of the mother tongue. He got his Latin and Greek, but he was always subjecting to an analysis all the English spoken within reach of his hungry ear. He killed off a great number of these verbal savages during his college days and thus in part fitted himself for the office of war correspondent and editor. College graduates have written letters in which there was the following spelling: "colledge," "sundies," "to great," "to fat," "separate." It would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAVID SWING ON GRAMMAR IN COLLEGES. | 2/16/1884 | See Source »

Marks are out in English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/15/1884 | See Source »

...Wendell, the instructor in English, has been making a tour during the examination period through all the large colleges, to learn their various methods of teaching English literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/14/1884 | See Source »

...addition to an advanced course of thesis and seminar work in topics of English and American Constitutional and Political history, which we advocated a few days ago and which seems to us the greatest need of the history department today, there is still another course which has been suggested for the department and which many would be glad to see taught next year, if possible. That is a course supplementary to History 2, though of a somewhat different character, involving not only constitutional but also narrative and general history, especially of recent times. This course should take up in turn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1884 | See Source »