Grandgent
Americannoun
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Roxbury alumni include General Joseph Warren, a onetime headmaster, who sent Paul Revere on his ride, led the fight at Lexington, and was killed at Bunker Hill; James Pierpont, principal founder of Yale; Harvard's great literary scholars, Charles H. Grandgent and George Lyman Kittredge.
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"Our poet," says Grandgent "was a many sided genius who has a message for nearly everyone."
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Grandgent, Jefferson B. Fletcher, James Russell Lowell—that Beatrice is both a real human being and a symbol.
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In a paper on the teaching of modern languages in our schools, Professor Grandgent says:14 "Usually there is no attempt made to teach any French sounds but u and the four nasal vowels; all the rest are unquestioningly replaced by the English vowels and consonants that most nearly resemble them."
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C. H. Grandgent, An outline of the phonology and morphology of old Proven�al, Boston, 1905.
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