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Show It is a fact that students and many graduates from big schoolsspcll villainously, villain-ously, and for tho benefit of those In attendance at the colleges in this city we venture to reproduce two quotations, quota-tions, as follows: "To spell one's own languago well is no great credit to him for lie ought to do it, but to spell it ill Is a disgrace, because it indicates extremely poor attention and loose scholarship." "There is no test of literacy or Illiteracy Il-literacy quite so rigidly applied as the test of ability to spell. Solecisms of speech are made constantly on the rostrum, in the pulpit, in the press, and arc pardoned or not noticed; but let a man commit himself to writing, unless lie can spell, or blame his misspelled mis-spelled words on the typewriter, ho has fatally blundered. No one pardons par-dons a poor speller." Roakl. "To be a goqd Speller may not win for one any special markof distinction, but to be a poor speller will often bring upon one the odium which attaches at-taches to ignorance. It Is a subject which all who have had opportunities are expected to know and which It Is somewhat of a disgrace not to know." Smith. |
