Life — November 17, 1910 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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Good as is the Eng- lish now written by the undergrad- uates in even the freshman class, one never sees it quoted outside the class- room. But the English written by the boys and girls in a fourth grade or grammar school is bad enough to make delightful reading. It finds its way frequently enough into the news- papers as typical school boys’ “ howl- ers.” It is barbarous and hence pow- erful. What delicious violations of every canon of correct criticism, what freshness of imbecility, what instances of that finest form of the sense of humor, its unconscious manifestation! Again and yet again the teacher, going over the papers submitted by the little ones, extracts a masterpiece here and there, irresistibly quotable because of its crudity and the countless flaws of style so odious to The Evening Post. Let us repeat a few. They have gone the rounds of the newspapers many a time, but the labor of reading them twice will not be vain: “Eve sinned out of curiosity more than liking for that particular fruit.” “The Semitic races were the half- breeds, from semi, half.” Senhedrin was composed of seventy mca of reclining years and great learning.” With respect to_the conversation re- corded in John, Chapter 3: “ Nicode- mus began the harangue, but could not take it all in at one gasp.” By and by the pupils whose faults of style rendered their English so quotable will be writing so well at college as to bore us. The lad who could set down in perfect good faith his idea that “a vacuum is a large empty space where the Pope stops” will never, when he reaches Harvard, achieve anything as fine. He will have been shamed by ridicule or improved hy study of the best models into a good style. Another bad writer will have been lost. 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