| Show BAD SPELLS 1 I Wo IVe VC notice with pleasure that there Is to bo be n a special examination of or stu etu students 4 dents applying for entrance to tho the high on o their In spelling u This of oC course Is only one ono of tho the ther r qualifications for Cor upon a II course couro of higher education than that hut i obtained In tie the district ell schools Tho The u other studies are fe all 1111 necessary but we wo wedo wedo do not wish Whit to ta refer reCer to them particularly particularly Just jUll now Wo We do O not echo tho the sentiment that spelling Is becoming n a af f lost art In hi this country countr but hut we are areo o ot the opinion that orthography Is Ia I sai saily 1 I ly Iy neglected so o 0 that many young oun mil mit and young oung women who are arii very er well Voll advanced In ordinary branches of ot edu education education cation exhibit much Ignorance In the spelling of or common English worth words This U Is not only soon en In essays essa anti and antiL L i by young but bul not nota a II lea few professors of ot learning In differ different tnt ent department betray a n luck luel of oC thorough training In orthography orthography raphy Nel ller editors editor tuyu hu many excellent opportunity of ot learning this unpleasant fact tact Home preceptors preceptor In Iii academies anti and even oven universities ties while he 1 toy for thIr U tuning In their special department delta frequently make in spoiling polling that lay In them open opell to t criticism m and anti OVOId oven to 10 ridicule I It 11 nay not bo 11 1 to lo t tho the methods of Dt drill drillIng Ing In Into tho childs mind the principles and arbitrary rules of correct I but Lut It ft appears very clor to us and tn to who have made ob oh observations to those we refer ret r to tu that some lome better methods tuna than thue ot or orry very ry recent limes In tho the teaching of ut should be Adopted 1 so that the th frequent bad spells to which otherwise o well educated persons are arc subject shall hull not bo ido of nf frequent t repetition repetition repetition tion Had writing may 1 a be condoned con amone amon professedly educated people but hut bad spelling never Phonetic spelling li is I not nol likely like to b ho he hoRene generally Rene rail adopted ot nt any rate rato for Cor Cormany many years to como because philology U III strongly I It on well rooted grounds and tind the tho hir proposed will take alto n a long time limo to become established If It ever they tho meet viti general acceptance Teach the children how to spell lip ell properly In their early earl studies anti tho the knowledge they Ih then thon gain will willbo bo ho stamped upi their minds during durin the remainder of ot their earthly ta career I |
