Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Willis has never been a pussyfooter. He is dry in theory and practice, and a born leader of men. In this, his home town, in a room where he taught rhetoric and grammar, and where he inspired students as did Garfield at Hiram, Ohio, there was organized the Willis-for-President Club. Those present and forming the club were of every political complexion and religious creed. Its slogan is, "The Largest Willis-for-President Club in the State...
...find the most terrifying of any in the zoo. It is a huge sly creature with barrel chest and four foot arms. It has a flat skull and sly, surly eyes. Last week, disregarding the signs that forbid feeding the animals, one J. H. Tate, principal of the Farragut Grammar School, near Knoxville, Tenn., threw this horrible creature a roasted peanut...
...want to know but I do know that I do not want my children to know anything about it, either." The result of this to-do was a request that Mr. Tate, anti-evolutionist and Deacon of the Baptist Church, was asked to resign as Principal of the Farragut Grammar School...
...Hearst papers have never sponsored the cause of education, and here they were tripped up by bad Spanish grammar and false chronology. But the thing was bound to be investigated, and it is a mistake to attribute to Mr. Hearst the ignorance and irresponsibility he pleases to assume. His scheme and purpose will eventually be illuminated. What is important now is that he feels invulnerable because his wealth takes care of libel suits, and because a large part of public opinion depends on the multitudes who read and Publicity believe only his papers. Mr. Ford held the prosperity of many...
...York Times, Booth Tarkington rails against the overeducation of college students, and declares that the only fit companion for a young student of his acquaintance is a professor of Greek. This is manifestly unfair both to the highly learned masses who went no more than through grammar school, and to the professors of Greek. A glance at the human dramas called advertisements among which Mr. Tarkington's stories are inserted should have long since convinced him that the remark about not having to go to college to get an education is no empty aphorism, and that the university...