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Long and short themes are required as in English A, and there are in addition exercises in speaking and reading, with the purpose of correcting errors in idiom and pronunciation. Each student is allowed an unusual amount of conference time...
Latin--Latin composition, study of idiom and practice in translation. Dr. Pease, Friday afternoons at 4, beginning November...
Harper's--"The Story of an Idiom," by T. R. Lounsbury h.'93; "Editor's Easy Chair," by W. D. Howells...
...could not help noting the power the study of Greek gave in English sentence making ; that, while there are men of letters, like the late Dr. Holland, who have a natural gift of style without Greek culture, it is nevertheless true that, to master English idiom, the average man must be more or less familiar with Greek. Profs. Young, Cameron, Orrks, Winans, Libbey, Hunt and West also spoke...
According to the latest statistics published, there are now 165 gymnasiums in Austria, frequented by 53, 142 pupils. In 95 of these schools the pupils are taught in the German idiom, in 33 in Zchech, and in 21 in Polish. Four of them are Italian, one is Ruthene, seven are Utraquist, and four are Serbo-Croat...