Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Physics the books are Balfour Stewart's Lessons in Physics (pp. I - 263). In Rhetoric there is required Whately's Elements of Rhetoric (Part III.), Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric (pp. 162 - 268, omitting pp. 185 - 186, 216 - 218, 227 - 237). In French a fair knowledge of Grammar and some ability to translate easy French. In Junior Rhetoric the text-book is Whately from the 56th to 388th page, omitting the chapters on Presumptions, and the Lectures on the Professions. A short Outline to be had at Sever's contains all the required amount...
...amount of knowledge that excuses Sophomores from these additional hours of recitation is not great. The ability to read easy French prose can be acquired without much effort during the summer months. An hour of real study daily would do it. A fair knowledge of the grammar, especially of the verbs, makes up for some deficiency in translating. As to pronunciation, it faciltates the study of any language not to neglect this in the beginning. It is a strain on the memory to try to retain words of which the sound is unknown...
There was a time when Latin was the vehicle of all thought. The modern languages being not yet fixed, if a man wished to be understood he must speak Latin; if he wished to be read he must write in Latin. All works on theology, science, philosophy, history, and grammar were written in this language. Nothing more natural then than the study of Latin. It was the first thing to learn. But is language anything but an instrument? And Latin for us modern people is about as useful an instrument as the axes of the Age of Stone...
...which demands a year's work. Accordingly, a child who begins his studies at eight years of age ought, at the age of seventeen (supposing he neither loses nor gains time), to be able to obtain his degree of bachelor. In the second or third class Latin grammar is begun, translations and themes are required, and sacred history is studied. During the fourth, fifth, and sixth, Greek is added; then Greek and Roman history. At the end of the sixth year the student is in condition to translate Cicero and Virgil, Xenophon and Plutarch. Then follow the classes of Rhetoric...
...following sad story: "We were visited lately by a young man from town, seven years old, the son of respectable parents, who is an inveterate tobacco-chewer, and has been such for over a year." Verily, if that is the state of affairs there, we cheerfully overlook the grammar, and add a few quarts to the burning tears of the Geyser. The number closes with a very sensible article on "Rich Men's Sons...