[lit-ideas] Grammer School (_Sic_)

From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:53:58 EDT
Interesting about Judy Evans' brother being an old Cowbridgian  (along with 
Anthony Hopkins who was recently shooting in the middle of nowhere  in the 
Province of Buenos Aires -- the film to be called, "The End of the World"  I 
believe). 
 
Some quotes below about 'grammar' school.
 
1387 _TREVISA_ 
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-t2.html#trevisa) 
  Higden (Rolls) V.  51 
At Alexandria he heeld a gramer scole. 
 
This is surely non-English, but perhaps the thing _is_ a translation of  
'skhole grammatike', which would _not_ be for the training into the Latin  
Language, but more like the Greek Language, I would think.
 
 
1454 E.E. Wills (1882) 133 
For to fynde to gramer scole my cosyn, his sone William. 
 
1523  _FITZHERB._ 
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-f.html#fitzherb) 
  Husb. §147, 
I lerned two verses at grammer-schole. 
 
-- and one is _not_ "God save the Queen". 
 
1593  _SHAKES._ 
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-s2.html#shakes)  
 2 Hen. VI, IV. vii. 37 
Thou hast most traiterously corrupted the youth  of the Realme, in erecting a 
Grammar Schoole. 
 
This was filmed with Laurence Olivier and that tremendously boring sound  
track music by Walton.
 
1616 _R. C._ 
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-c.html#r-c)  
Times' Whistle ii. 845 
The foole Was never farther than the grammer schoole. 
 
Your brother may not like this, but _Cowbridge_ *is* different and your  
brother was indeed "farther than the grammar schoole".
 
1647 Laws Massachusetts (1672) 136 
Where any Town shall increase to the number of one hundred  Families..they 
shall set up a Grammar School. 
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1711  _STEELE_ 
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-s4.html#steele)  
Spect. No. 157 1 The many Heart-aches  and Terrors, to which 
our Childhood is exposed in going through a  Grammar-School. 
 
Master Evans would agree?
 
1809 _KENDALL_ 
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-k.html#kendall)  
Trav. III. lxxvii. 197 
It differs therefore in nothing from the other grammar  schools, called 
academies. 
 
-- Well, that's PLATO's Territory, and allows for a whole different  thread.
 
1858  _DE  QUINCEY_ 
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-d.html#de-quincey)
  Autobiog. Sk. Wks. II. 268 
At the little town of Hawkshead..a grammar-school (which, in  English usage, 
means a school for classical literature) was founded. 
 
So I assume they taught a sprinkle of Greek.
 
1874 _GREEN_ 
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-g2.html#green)  
Short Hist. vi. §4. 305 
The grammar schools of Edward the Sixth and of  Elizabeth..had changed the 
very face of England. 
 
Figuratively, that is. 
 
1876 _BANCROFT_ 
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-b.html#bancroft) 
 Hist. U.S. V. xxii. 577 
They provided for a school in each town, a grammar-school in  each county, 
and a university in the state. 
 
 
1963 _BARNARD_ 
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-b.html#barnard)  
& LAUWERYS Handbk. Brit. Educ. Terms 101 
Grammar school,..The term nowadays is  used for a secondary school with an 
academic curriculum, particularly suited for  preparing pupils for entry to the 
universities or professions.
 
attrib. 1826  _SYD.  SMITH_ 
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-s3.html#syd-smith)
  Wks. (1869) 529 
An Hamiltonian makes, in six or seven lessons,  three or four hundred times 
as many exchanges of English for French or Latin, as  a grammar schoolboy can 
do. 
 
Good quote of a good writer.
 
1898  _J. K.  JEROME_ 
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-j.html#j-k-jerome)
  Second Thoughts of Idle Fellow 266, 
I like to think of him [Shakespeare] as poacher, as  village ne'er-do-well, 
denounced by the local grammar-school master.
 
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