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Show Simplified Spelling I No Longer Endorsed COLUMBUS. Ohio, April 1 Simplified Simpli-fied spelling no longer has the sanction, sanc-tion, either official or tacit, or the Mod-erp Mod-erp Language Association of America as an organization, Its use In Ihe association's publications publica-tions was abandoned today by a vote of the association at its annua) meeting meet-ing because of lack of public onthus iasm for the new method, because It' was declared to be making no progress and because it offended some of the membciM of tho association. SImpll jfjrT . nti'jnrr hd !rpi usod by the association as-sociation for eoven years. ! ..,.. .L.1...1. ,i it. .) uad given its) official approval to Ihe simplified fojm of spelling, the sanction extending I only to its use ip Its own publications. Honorary membership in the associ-allon associ-allon was extended to Sir Walter Ra-leigh, Ra-leigh, professor of English literature, Oxford. TCpglaud. and to Alfred Morel-Fatio, Morel-Fatio, professor of the modern langu. ags and Hteralut'CH of southern "Europe, "Eur-ope, college of France The association also voted to affil- iato with the American Council of Lcorned Societies Dcvotod to Humanistic Human-istic Sludies. |