Show CONTEST T IS OFF University Professors Decline to toM toNet Net M et Herald He ld Reporters on the Field of language Back Back to the shelf 0 O Dictionary To the archives 0 O Grammar Grammar There Thero will wi be no fight tIght The big word contest is off I abandoned The The l university i professors decline to en engage engage engage gage The Te Herald reporters in tho the rough struggle with wih words and facts fats that earns carns daily daiy a little meat and some sometimes sometimes times too much drink for the humble gleaner glener of news Yes the professors refuse refue to buck the tho newspaper game gae It I should not be for forgotten forgotten gotten goten that the professors still sti assert their claim caim to knowledge of the English language a claim not disputed by the re ro reporters 10 porters But the professors decline to take a chance with the reporters under the conditions that govern govern newspaper making Wherefore the police polie reporter mourn eth et He lie le the loss of 2 in money mone that he invested In a clipping bureau ser service service i vice Ice with wih the Understanding that the bu bureau bureau reau reu give him all al the tle big words possible He planned to take the fight to the pro professors professors to meet them on their own ground and he lie had collected so many ponderous verbal missiles missies that he was wa sure of victory The English language as used in Salt Sal Lake newspapers must worry wor along un under under Under der the same old conditions The pro professors lessors will wl not act as pacemakers s The Te incident was referred to by Protes Professor Protessor sor SOl Reynolds and Professor Marshall Mashl in inthe intile inthe the tile presence of their classes in English at the university yesterday Professor Reynolds read red The Heralds challenge chalen e to his hi class and explained that he had bad not Intended to attack The Te Herald Herd but had merely sought Bought to direct direct attention to what he regarded as a an example of or a common error He le said sid his hi purpose at nt all ni times was to aid his pupils in forming an Eng Em English English lish conscience that would instinctively guide them to the choice of pure purn English gide Professor Marshall hinted delicately that tat possibly the reporters desired to succeed s the professors professor of or English on the faculty of the university Both teachers declined declied to accept The Heralds challenge N The Incident is regarded as hang having been helpful to both sides sl es If I The Te Heralds dictionary could talk talk it I might tell tel of two tw of the busiest days any dictionary ever had That police reporter never does doe things by halves If I the professors professor should talk they might tell teU of deliberations In which the tho theory of chances was and In which the te voice of caution spoke convincingly convincing The professors do not desire to report The reporters do not desire to teach Ech Each to his III Job and a l all aU Is well |