The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-05
INTERESTED IN
THAT GRAMMAR
PARENTS SEE WHAT THEIR
CHILDREN STUDY.
The Journals Story of the
Psychological Work for 10-Year-OId
Creates Commentators Interesting
Quotations From the Book-Read
What Pronoun Is.

$50 much interest has been demon
astrated by parents of school children
in L h e j u I'm a Is story Wednesday
of the grammar adopted for the
schools, it is believed other quotations
from that ponderous psychological
will be of interest.
Finishing in the first lesson the first
chapter of the book, entitled Mature
Of Ideas" the 10-year-old comes ITO
Chapter II, Mature, of Thoughts.
Lest the gist of the first lesson escape
the pupil in his intense interest in the
new subject, this calculating predatory
comment is given:
you have now learned that some
of our ideas are the mental images Of
| sense objects. Every sense-object may
! stimulate the mind to form an idea
corresponding to it. These sense
objects have attributes and the mind
| forms attribute-ideas corresponding to
these sense-attribut ~
You have also learned that the
mind is furnished with connecting
ideas that join it's object-idee,s and at
tribute-ideas together in different
ways
Can't you just see the little bright
eyes sparkle and hear the chorus of
childish voices: Eyes, I see?''
Probably realizing that some Of the
! definitions were somewhat involved, a
| list Of condensed definitions was APP
pended. Here are a few of the Sim
plified" ones:
ga thought, or judgment, is formed
by asserting some attribute of an OBJ
| jecta idea.''
Parts Of speech are the different
groups of words that express the diff
ferent classes of ideas used in form
ing thoughts"
Doubtful people will be glad tc
learn that "a pronoun is word thai
! denotes an object idea without nam
ing it," that 1.-THE interrogative sem
tence asks for some element of the
thought" and that when an attrib.
ute-idea is made an object-idea the
word that names it is an abstract
noun"
) In order that the pupils may be Sc
instructed that they may write gram
: mars for their own use, the advice il
given:
1.-THE following is a good order tt
, pursue IN studying words:
!, 'First-Find the root meaning o
: the word.
| "Second-Point out the prefixes am
Esuffixes and state what modification
!, they make of the root-meaning.
!, @~trfThird-FOrm a thought that re
quires the word to express it.
. "Fourth-Make a list Of all tn
! words you can discover that ar
formed from the same root. Exam
n pie, the root-word ject or jac."
: The following heart-to-heart tai
d with the pupil on connecting-ideas
: Of interest:
: you say: The green apple and tn
: red apple are the two largest.
Mote carefully what ideas 70
have. What are the two object
ideas? Green apple and red apple.
. What are the attribute-ideas
lGreen, red, largest.) Mar,
. Green is>the attribute Of one apple
: red is the attribute of the other; blu
i largest is the attribute OF, both take
9 together. The green apple, and tn
: red apple must be taken together t
t make the two largest"
: It might seem that this talk did nc
e SO much belong to the realm Of cor
It necting-ideas as to the field Of COZ
e rect use of the superlative, which use
to form an element of grammar.
e the old grammar ''the two largest
: was in bad form.