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Show THE REVIEW. 4 College English. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. ANNIE M. BRADLEY, Editor and Manager, 211 E. South Temple St. .... subscription One Year, Six Months, - - : . $1.00 .50 For Advertising Rates apply to Lester Wallach Advertising Agency, 15 W. Second South. Entered at the Poet Office at Salt Lake City as Second class matter . SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1897. The Civic Club of Pittsburg, Pa., has been presented with a public bathhouse, where the poor may get a bath for five cents. Mrs. Wm. Thaw Jr., is the doner of the gift. The baths were opened on Thanksgiving Day. Miss Jane Addams has been appoin- ted postmaster of one of Chicagos at a salary of $260.00. Miss Addams is well known all over the country, through her admirable management of the Social Settlement, sub-station- s, Hull House. President McKinley has recommended to the War Department, that a medal of honor be bestowed upon Mrs. Delina Roberts of St. Louis, Mo., for heroic action during the Civil War, when she was but sixteen years old. Congress will probably act upon this matter very soon. Mrs. A. J. Peavey, well known as State Supt. of Public Instruction in Colorado, says in refuting a recent article in the Boston Transcript on the failure of woman suffrage as demonstrated in the recent elections in Col- that corrupt politicians orado, says, do not like women in politics, and by every means possible, have defied, insulted and imposed upon good women. Corrupt men are afraid of the woman vote. They do not know howto Very few good men cope with it. oppose equal suffrage, for they have nothing to fear and much to hope for, if they desire better conditions. The Committee on Composition and Rhetoric of Harvard University have made their final report to the Board of Overseers on College of This is the fourth report English. made, the three previous ones being devoted to exhibiting the lack of knowledge on the part of students of entering college, in the proper use the English language as shown in their examination papers. This last report is based on the answers to queries addressed to the young men and women students touching the extent of training they had received in their respective schools. The 1308 answers have been bound together and placed in the library of the College. Few Americans seem to realize the necessity of speaking 'better English. A successful man or woman in this country is not discredited on account of his murdering the kings English, which they would be many, France or England. They should be taught to express everything they wish to speak of in the best form, and by constant practice the habit of speaking easily and gracefully will be acquired, and when our young men and women are ready to enter college, they will be ready to take up the study of literature instead of devoting a great deal of time in correcting either the errors or deficiencies of an early training. guage. in Ger- The training in our schools does not give the pupils sufficient practice, and only through practice can an easy and elegant use of the language be acquired. The report of the Harvard committee condemns the method of training, and claims in many cases that the in- struction was absurd, and oftentimes of the sort to lead pupils to think they are taught English for the purpose of making literature, with little thought of speaking the language easily and The letters of the Radcliffe well. pupils show a marked tendency in women to be flowery, although there is weakness on this point as shown by the letters of the young men. Few describe simply, and even the practical newspaper reporter is prone to narrate even the most trivial occurrences in flowers of rhetoric, much to the detriment of the newspaper, which makes it necessary to wade through paragraph after paragraph of useless ornamentation to glean a few facts. There is nothing that should be regarded by parents and teachers more important than the acquiring by boys and girls of a correct use of our lan The Royal Society of London has decided to dispatch an expedition in the early spring to investigate the ethnology of Oceania. The research will be mainly to ascertain the manners, customs, dances, games, ceremonies and other social features. The expedition will be under the guidance of Prof. Haddon, of Cambridge. At the New York Juvenile Asylum, the other evening, one of the girls recited When Maria Jane is Mayor. In an address which he delivered later, Mayor Strong declared he was looking forward to the day when Maria Jane should be mayor literally, and he thought New York would be the better for it. It certainly could be no worse under a lady than it is likely to be under the domination of the tiger. Boston Transrript . Getting Even. There were but tew passengers in a car when a lady entered with her two children, aged respectively, two and four years. She took the younger child on her lap, the older one occupying a seat beside her. As the car became crowded the conductor realized that the child was occupying a seat and gruffly remarked, People shouldnt occupy seats they dont pay for. A flush of indignation suffused the ladys face, while she calmly replied, This is one time in which I am getting even for the many times I pay for a seat which I do not occupy. The smile of approval which passed over the faces of the other passengers showed plainly that the woman was mistress of the situation. Woman's Weekly, Advertise your Christmas Goods in The Review. Woman in Utah will read your ad. Every Club |
