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Show BOSTOMAXS TABOO THE TELEPHONE 'HELLO' Do not say "Hello" when you pick up the telephone. Avoid "Nope" and "Yep" in your conversation when you mean "No" or "Yes." If Boston is going to sustain its reputation as the Athens of America, Amer-ica, it must quit the nse of the3e barbarisms, bar-barisms, according to Jeremiah E. Burke, new superintendent of Bos-ten Bos-ten schools. It is more in accordance with Boston Bos-ton culture to say somethink like "This is. Mr. Smith talking; with whom am I conversing?" "There are many words," Suepr-intendent Suepr-intendent Burke says, "which may bo -used in place of the word 'Hello' Its use is condemned in Boston schools particularly in classes In salesmanship whre knowledge of dignified and grammatical English is essential. "There is no excuse for the use of 'Nope' and 'Yep' in conversation. I believe that if Boston school chol-dren chol-dren will check', themselves In their j use. parents at home will gradually dispense with their use. 1 "My advice to the children In the j Boston schools is; I "Dont be slovenly in the use of English. Slovenliness is the result of habit, and once tolerated it is likely like-ly to cling to all of us until mature life." Boston Transcript. |