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Paul Bernard Diederich





Date and Place of Birth

September 29, 1906, in Muskogee, Oklahoma



Academic Record

1920-24 Attended Crosby High School, Waterbury, Connecticut

1924-26 Attended Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts

1926-28 Attended Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1928 Received A.B. degree in Classics from Harvard

1928-30 Attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education

1930 Received the Ed.M. degree in Secondary Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education

1930-32 Attended Teachers College, Columbia University

1932-35 Taught Latin in the University School, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1935- Assisted in the evaluation of the teaching of foreign languages and the arts in the Eight Year Study of the Commission on the Relation of School and College of the Progressive Education Association



Publications

"Seventeen Basic Latin Endings," Educational Research Bulletin, XV (January, 1936), 1-5. (1 now refer to speak of eighteen common endings, including third declension nominatives, which I formerly treated as a special category.)

"Evaluation Records," Educational Method, XV (May, 1936)2 432-40.

"A Master List of Types of Pupil Activities," Educational Research Bulletin, XV (September, 1936) 166-69.

"What Kind of Society Do We Want?" Progressive Education, XIII (November, 1936). 534-37.

"The Appraisal of Teaching for Cultural Objectives," French Review, XI (May, 1938), 471-77.



PREFACE

THE WORD COUNT

THE COUNT OF INFLECTIONAL ENDINGS

THE METHOD OF TEACHING

THE VOCABULARY OF LATIN LITERATURE

THE RECOMMENDED BASIC VOCABULARY


APPENDIXES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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