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King's Theatre: An American Tragedy."
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The students, Inpnched a crusade for works. In his defence it was against the professors for murder. |pleaded that after all he came from ing the English language. "Ver. Brooklyn. bal regicides," they called them, and on the bulletin boards of the University appeared appeals for volunteers to collect every atrocity structors wero guilty." of speech of which their learned in
The "Morning Spectator," the daily paper of the students Hanised a detective service to take shorthand nates of the grammati cal errors of the professors. These published day after day, tiranten ed to demoralise the faculty.
A pedagogue dreamily, discussing some recondite subject would make an unconscious slip of the tongue. The next morning he would see it would be held up. to the ridicule glaring at him in type. His lupsc
of all New York
Not even the august head of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia, and friend of half the world's patentatcs,, was spared. It seems he mangled grammar in this pertenco:
"Save the icient Roman Em in history has ever been so closely piro and Great Britain, no people intertwined with the whole civili sad world se
are the American. people to-day."
Dr. Butler was told crisply he should have used "is" instead of "are," and have inserted other" between. "no" and "people."
No Doubt at All.
ค
When the professors recovered their breadth from the first on.) The Attentive Glass.
slaught of the young grammarians,. The campaign had one strikingly they launched counter-attack. immédiate effect. For the Arst
Dr. Vizetelly, the lexicographer, time in the lives of some of them, came galloping to the aid of the the professors found themselves en-
hard-pressed Dr. Butler. The alu joying the undivided attention of dents had written: "There is no their classos. Eager to pounce doubt but that some frightful
"room
upou
upon the slidest error, their agency should be brought to bear
Sung those The uncanny slicice of
who slay the English language Intense with regularity." concentration descended
Dr. Vizetelly the
seized on the phrase "there, is no. This pitiless publicity was anyostionable, asserting it was often,
doubt but that as thoroughly ob gülshing to the shy and nervous, erroneously used by people whe and the University displayed the their classes were Boh so attentive grammar and lexicographical law." paradox of professors who wished believe themselves letter perfect in Dr George Odell, the professor They beamed upon the day-dream- er, and, thought kindly of the lads for daring to criticise the use of of literaturo, chastised the students with wandering minds who pre-people that" instead of "people viously they had scorned.
who. Ponderously he declared: On a number of occasions a pro- "It is perfectly correct in a clause professor, becoming suspicious of of lose connection." the rapt attention of some hawk- eyed youth with a note-book, would
The students had made merry demand that he should withdraw. end of their lectures habitually over those professora who at the On the youth refusing, the profes-said: "If anybody has any ques sor would abandon his lecture.
As every
newspaper reporter
tions to ask they should ask them.
knows, most public speakers could now." To this Dr. Odell retorted:
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Professor Mark Van Doren, an advocata af toleration in this struggle, considers that young men are always more conservativè the
Some of the atrocities collected! by the students are startling. One of the English instructors, for ex ample, was reported as replying to a freshman's question with this jewel of style: "I think you are Positive of something that ain't ed. He points out that some ex-
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What the Professor Thought.
use of language than their seniors, and often are sticklers for correct- ness when common usage, has eban-
ports even sanction the hee of "it's me."
Meanwhile the incensed profes Another savant, reputed to be sors are busily collecting mutila- master of twenty languages, was tions of grammar and distortions quoted 28. habitually saying of speech by the young. They "woids" for words, foist" for should make good reading.
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