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Show DROPPING OF MIDDLE NAMES A Two-Ply Title Found to Be More Convenient Socially, Morally and Financially. j This Is the day of the two-cylinder name, which fact has been proved by cognomen connoisseurs who have looked over every name at Harvard and inspected the persons to whom the names belong. Tliey learned that some extremely nice persons have no middle names at all, and seem to get on rather well without them. It is assumed that the ever-growing trend toward efficiency is to be blamed for the dropping of oversized names, for it has long been understood that a person with a two-ply title need not be especially embarrassed about it. In the course of a wealthy man's life it means the writing of about 10,000,-000 10,000,-000 useless words if he uses his middle mid-dle name on checks and indorsements, and these things have got to be considered. con-sidered. The Porcelain club at Harvard, the most exclusive organization of its kind in the country, proves this year the failing value of middle names. There are fifteen members this year, and but five of them are burdened with excessive exces-sive nomenclature. Of course, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln had no middle names, but this evidence is considered as nothing noth-ing at Harvard compared with the fact that Theodore Roosevelt hasn't. That one fact is almost enough to wreck the complicated title system at the uni-versi uni-versi ty. |
