Show THE RESULT OF LAZINESS that Is 13 what prof talmage says of poor spelling later y liter n prof at the university tire aro serio seriously isly confide considering ring the taking of drastic measures if necessary to cu eye cue e the habit of bad spelling that so many students seem to have fallen into it is surprising said dr james jamea K E talmage head of the department of geology geo lofy how poorly our students spell just the other day the principal of the training school told me that a normal student had ben laughed at by her class clasa because she a word in writing a simple sentence on the board of course this is an ail exceptional case but it goes to show just how ee serious the matter la is be becoming corning 11 dr talmage has ben foremost the last few years in trying to persuade the faculty that students today are not up lip to the standard of years ago in this thia department boise still he has urged they are not showing many encouraging signs of betterment many educators said the doctor hold that bad spelling is a disease it may be and if it is the proper remedy should be applied immediately personally eo so nally I 1 think that bad spelling la is the direct result of laziness and experiments that I 1 have carried out have confirmed my belief the fault of this bad spelling does not fall upon the university in any way as the student la is expected to br be proficient in that line before he Is 3 graduated from the grades but if they do manage to slip through the gra grammar inhar schools without mastering their spelling book then it rests with the university to take up a labor with them and put them straight in my classes I 1 have done wonders toward correcting the poor spelling of my students whenever I 1 get a paper from them that contains misspelled words I 1 call the students attention to them and assure him that an essential part of the work is the conquering of all the words I 1 never fail to tell my classes that although I 1 can not prevent them passing f fron rori the course because they are nat apt spelling as well as might be expected yet I 1 shall refuse to sanction their graduation if they fail to correct themselves this is ia the work that I 1 believe every professor in the institution should do and if ff they have the same results that I 1 hive have achieved the standard of spelling in the university will be elevated in answer to the question why by the grammar grades fall fail to perfect the student in this line dr talmace paid 1 I believe the great trouble rests in the method that tile the teachers pursue the children are given tuo too much method and not enough of beneficial exercise children learn to spell so as to do it orally this is a great mistake wo we dont learn spelling to do it orally but to write correctly instead of giving a student fifty words to or spell orally they should assign about half a page or more of good literature for the child to copy and recopy until he has learned to spell every word in it correctly in this way the child learns to tell whether a A word ord is spelled correctly merely by looking at it another habit that many of our boys and girls girla are cultivating is avoiding big words it if they do not know a word the chances are they will pass it by and try to keep away avay from it in the th future this is an important thing and should be corrected when a student meets a word he stare it out of countenance it is ia merely a question whether man or word is to be master maiter and man should hold up his hia end of the contest |