Scribd Feed for category: LanguageThis is a feed for documents in the category LanguageThe Underground Grammarian, Volume XV- August 23, 2008 SHARETEXT Volume Fifteen The Underground Grammarian The Underground GRAMMARIAN Volume Fifteen, Number One . . . . . Spring 1991 In the Time of the Willies A Hard Case Brings Tidings of Comfort and Joy The final speaker at the conference was sociologist Charles Willie, professor of education at Harvard University, who boldly drew for the participants a picture of the multi-cultural university. Prof. Willie began by saying that calls for increased excellence in American colleges and...http://www.scribd.com/doc/4978993/The-Underground-Grammarian-Volume-XV The Underground Grammarian, Volume XIV- August 23, 2008 SHARETEXT Volume Fourteen The Underground Grammarian The Underground GRAMMARIAN Volume Fourteen, Number One . . . . . February 1990 Heretics and Malignants To ye aged and beloved Mr. John Higgenson: There be now at sea a ship called Welcome, which has on board 100 or more the heretics and malignants called Quakers, with W. Penn, who is the chief scamp, at the head of them. The General Court has accordingly given sacred orders to Master Malachi Huscott, of the brig Porpoise, to waylay the said.http://www.scribd.com/doc/4978930/The-Underground-Grammarian-Volume-XIV The Underground Grammarian, Volume XIII- August 23, 2008 SHARETEXT Volume Thirteen The Underground Grammarian The Underground GRAMMARIAN Volume Thirteen, Number One . . . . . February 1989 Go Sell the Spartans SOMEWHERE among those clippings that we must have lost in the last month, there was a story about an educationist in California who was reciting the currently popular pledge of allegiance to Values. He said, more or less, that he saw nothing wrong with letting students know about Horatio at the bridge, and that the poem would show them a...http://www.scribd.com/doc/4978879/The-Underground-Grammarian-Volume-XIII The Underground Grammarian, Volume XII- August 23, 2008 SHARETEXT Volume Twelve The Underground Grammarian The Underground GRAMMARIAN Volume Twelve, Number One . . . . . February 1988 The Lessons We Learn TO QUESTION ALL THINGS: never to turn away from any difficulty; to accept no doctrine either from ourselves or from other people without a rigid scrutiny by negative criticism; letting no fallacy, or incoherence, or confusion of thought, step by unperceived; above all, to insist on having the meaning of a word clearly understood before using it,..http://www.scribd.com/doc/4978840/The-Underground-Grammarian-Volume-XII The Underground Grammarian, Volume XI- August 23, 2008 SHARETEXT Volume Eleven The Underground Grammarian The Underground GRAMMARIAN Volume Eleven, Number One . . . . . February 1987 Influxing Fun in Florida Welcome to the twilight zone of professors. To put it politely, these guys are different. To put it bluntly, they are, at times, downright strange. But however strange or bizarre their methods might seem, they are as dedicated to teaching as anyone in their profession. ... Even though these profs have been known to smack ice cream cones into..http://www.scribd.com/doc/4978762/The-Underground-Grammarian-Volume-XI The Underground Grammarian, Volume X- August 23, 2008 SHARETEXT Volume Ten The Underground Grammarian The Underground GRAMMARIAN Volume Ten, Number One . . . . . February 1986 As to which of the two pieces is supposed to be in danger of suffering by that invidious comparison, there is no telling, any more than there is any useful distinction to be made between chaff and dross. But judge for yourself. Here is the first paragraph of the editors piece, which is called Excessive Bureaucratization: The J-Curve Theory of Bureaucracy and Max Weber...http://www.scribd.com/doc/4978689/The-Underground-Grammarian-Volume-X The Underground Grammarian, Volume IX- August 23, 2008 SHARETEXT Volume Nine The Underground Grammarian The Underground GRAMMARIAN Volume Nine, Number One . . . . . February 1985 Comes the Revolution Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and..http://www.scribd.com/doc/4978604/The-Underground-Grammarian-Volume-IX The Underground Grammarian, Volume VIII- August 23, 2008 SHARETEXT Volume Eight The Underground Grammarian The Underground GRAMMARIAN Volume Eight, Number One . . . . . February 1984 Sorrowful Words of Dole You start telling the Congress that they should act objectively and reasonably without considering the politics, its probably not going to happen. WE had a letter recently from a man who was eager to read THE UNDERGROUND GRAMMARIAN. It was his hope that we would explain, once and for all, the rules for the placing of other punctuation in the...http://www.scribd.com/doc/4978554/The-Underground-Grammarian-Volume-VIII The Underground Grammarian, Volume VII- August 23, 2008 SHARETEXT Volume Seven The Underground Grammarian The Underground GRAMMARIAN Volume Seven, Number One . . . . . February 1983 The Teacher of the Year Daniel Stephenson, of Salt Lake City As little foundation is there for the report that I am a teacher, and take money; this accusation has no more truth in it than the other. Although, if a man were really able to instruct mankind, to receive money for giving instruction would, in my opinion, be an honor to him. A TRUE TEACHER is even harder to.http://www.scribd.com/doc/4978513/The-Underground-Grammarian-Volume-VII The Underground Grammarian, Volume VI- August 23, 2008 SHARETEXT Volume Six The Underground Grammarian The Underground GRAMMARIAN Volume Six, Number One . . . . . . January 1982 Peter Wagschal, Futurist, University of Massachusetts YEAH. And thats not all! Just you take a good look at the standard American dogs and cats. They live pretty damn well, tolling not, neither spinning, and theyve never even heard of stuff like reading, writing, and arithmetic. They do quite nicely without those skills, and so do tropical fish and baboons. And so, too,..http://www.scribd.com/doc/4978431/The-Underground-Grammarian-Volume-VI |