Show DROPPING OF MIDDLE NAMES A Two-Ply Two Title Found to Be More Convenient Socially Morally and Financially This Is the day clay of the two-cylinder two name which fact has been proved by cognomen connoisseurs who have looked over oyer every name nume at Harvard and Inspected the persons to whom the names belong They learned that some extremely nice persons have no middle names at all nIl and und seem to get geton geton on rather well without them It is assumed that the grow ever ing trend toward efficiency Is to be blamed for the dropping of names for it has lon long been understood that a person with a two ply title nee need not be bc especially embarrassed about It H. In the course of a wealthy mans man's life it means menns the thc writing of about useless words If he uses his middle middle mid mid- middie dle die name on checks and amI indorsements and these things have got to be con conn The Porcelain club at Harvard the most exclusive organization of its kind In the country proves this year ear the failing value of middle names There are fifteen members this year ear and but five of them are burdened with excessive excessive sive sire nomenclature Of or course George Washington and Abraham Lincoln had no middle names but this evidence Is considered as nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing at Harvard compared with the fact fart that Th Theodore odore hasn't That one fact is almost enough to wreck the complicated title s system stem at the uni t |