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Show GRADUATIONS. The season of school closing Is just over. The usual commonplaces about ! life's lessons, opportunity, and ambi tion have been passed on to the rising . , generation and we trust the graduates H t are hastening to put Into practice the H good advice that has been showered " so liberally upon them. Graduation H J day is the tlrst big event In the life of 1 the ordinary young person. From It H he dates forward and back. For u H girl it is an opportunity to look pretty, H v second only to her wedding day. For H k a boy it is one of the first manly steps, H equal In importance to his tlrst vote H or his tlrst public speech. For parents H It Is a source of joy and pride to feel Hj that their children are making pro- H ' grcss, but of sadness to think how i ' soon the fledglings will leave the nest. But to all should come with the pov session of a diploma or certificate a h S feeling of responsibility. Our side of H y this responsibility we wish to enipha- B i size. It Is the duty of usiug good B" English; grammatical, at any lulu, H Ify and, if possible, clear and vlgoious Hij with now and ihtn a touch of elv.- ""t gancc. One certificate Implies that , we have had good training In ttie I principles and literature of our mother I tongue and it Is for us to prove to the W 1 world at large by our walk and conver H!,f . tailon that we have protlted by our B'!fM schooling and merit our diploma. No B ' eighth grade graduate who respects !j himself and his teachers will everal- If low himself to have shifting verbs, double negatives, or mixed numbers. mb "Had went,' "he done," "he drug," Bwjl 8 "they haven't no money," "don't you i never have nothing to do with no col lege students," "apples is ripe, ain't they;" these are forms that a man or boy with a-dlploma will consider beneath be-neath his dignity to use. Just as it Is no credit to spell well, but a distinct disadvantage not to, so good grammar is not a glaring virtue, but bad grammar gram-mar is a very black vice. Ungram- matical English, like public swearing B' I and gum chewing, announce to Strang- H ers on Just what social plane wo belong and we woulri hate to be considered uneducated when we are the proud i possessors of diplomas. For many rea- sons we Wali that we hud as large a j proportion of eighth grade and high m, school students in Cache valley as In m i the other well populated Utah coiin- H ' ties, and one of our reasons is in order that the mother tongue might beheld In higher esteem and her laws more commonly obeyed. In few states do the Inhabitants play so public a part as In Utah. Church, ward, county, city, all demand that a man should speak aloud his opinions and consequently conse-quently no study is so Important as that of English In order that all things may be done decently and In order. |