Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-04-15 | Page 28 | Jesting Students Resent Author's Dots and Dashes

jEST NG STUDE i RESENT AUTHORS AUTHOR'S DOTS AND R DASHES LO LONDON DON April B 14 14 By By The Associated rr Press ss Hags Rags In parlance of ot English university stu- stu students stu students tu- tu dents arc not rags at all In the sense sene It If there were a glossary of or English and American slang blang the American equivalent ot of otra rag ra probably e woud oud be hI h rau raz To Illustrate When the students or of Edinburgh Un University recently refused to alow former Prime Min lila MinIster Min Minister ister Lloyd Lie d George to make male hIs hl speech on politics that was as a 0 ra rag somebody threw a live 11 h hen n frOm the balcony sending the aud- aud audIence aud audience below into an uproar it stas as deCided decidedly a t rig rag I C S The Tho most recent concrete dem- dem dent dem demonstration of ot the tho word worl occurred lately at Leeds when II H G Wells Veils the author was isas subjected to a se- se se severe sere vere cro rIgging ragging b by the students of ot the City of ot Leeds college collego Mr Ir went to the Institution to do- do doliver de deliver a it lecture and the first thin thing he knew one of ot the students student car car- carrying carrying car carrying a a broom representing the tho wand of ot justice justlee accosted the au- au author author au author thor and declared l I 1 arrest you ou in the name of ot the Crown an anil Anchor The technical charge against th the suspect waif wa was using an ec excessive number of or dots e with ith felonious In- In Int intent In Intent t tent nt in Ills his s various arious books With With- Without Without out a chance to Mr S ells was dragS i to the student students s court tried and summarily sentenced This was nas as the sentence You must either cither your sour our Out Out- Outline Outline Out Outline line of or History from Morse to Sem Sem-I Sem Semaphore or work It out In V ii the lie assistance if r I the stone steno and the Tel Tel-el- cl tablets ELLS ROOD GOOD GOOD Although Mr lIr Wells counsel In- In In Indulging In the tho copious puns for or which English barristers Ts are fam farn famous ous pus put up a 0 strong plea that the use of ot dots was a 0 professional lIege and that the tho use of o so 0 many dots tended to pro prove prote e that tho the pris pris- prisoner prisoner oner otter was in hl his dotage thus con con- constituting con constituting circum circumstances stances there was ns no appeal from rom the judges judge's sentence It was do- do decided de decided by the court that this e c use of or dots was JS a 0 peril to phonetics and dominoes and Iii Wells Veils had to take the consequences ces Mr Yell Wells however submitted t to the ragging like a 0 good sport and andIn andin andin In perfect cockney accent declare Ito to the tho court that he could do the sentence on me cad ead