Caption: Sophograph - 1891
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5V , H , .||K HiKAPH. ONE of the evils of the day is fin- use of slang. It one o( ihc jjreal writers <»t' pure English- Hawthorne, Irving, Emerson -should he placed among .1 company of ordinary young people to-day, he would find it difficult to comprehend their conversation. Now, this is a grave state of affairs, largely due. we believe, to thoughtlessness on the pari of those who indulge in such language. There is no on.-, who habitually uses good language, hut feels ;i sensible lowering of bis self-respect and loss of dignity when he allows himself to use a slang expression. There is never an excuse for its use. Ir is an offense affecting not only one's associates hut affecting himself. The habitual use of slang is evidence of a vulgar mind. W e do not mean to imply that all who us.' slang fco soar on up in the mod eh ani i ma*{inable. 80 thei land around, ^apmbnaj crowd and flopping their incipient •• \n% • t,ll. finally they fina it too late in the day I attempi the ascenl and are compclM 1 remain at the bottom. In the fi p\m ben, begin; and begin at the beginning r you begin. FELLOW-SI ODBN 1 . w hat are at are necessarily low; its use is so prevalent that those wlm are wholly five from contamination are y^ry few; hut we do believe that the iv<'quent use of questionable words and phrases is strong circumstantial evidence of innate vulgarity. the University? Is ii the drii md labeled contents of I oks ? Is it the polish < f » ntact with men ol br< I and varied attai ments ? I> it a few veare of gra I . •«! times, proverbial with students ? Or, it t ability to work ? This last is the ^r of all education. If w»- arc not piiwcr to use the faculties which w * j . » for some worthy end, there lv thing wrong with us. If, 1 er a fear or tw 1 of schooling, we are no m fitted I »r work < than when we began, we mai well ul whether a >ura it the 1 ni\. t\ \$ morth the time it requires. It is \ %\ •• • m i n d with facts, well t 1 social \ 1. THB hardest thing in the world to make, is a beginning. After the first few Btepa an taken, all tin- resi is only a matter of course. ft isummoning of one's forces to ael oul £h the unknot n wilderness, as it were •--•- hi- strength. Think, for a moment, of the number of life-failure* which mighi fo I. directly, to the tm I that the person md< msideration failed t > make « determine beginning in am pi rticular line. Too • • •! w itn the idea thai there i i *orl of golden gatewaj to the ill of li . if the} can onlj find it, ill I pi -I with u in M.I be able well to enjoj the daj - at ; bul th should be only incidental. VVh we v. what we are here for, n hat the w* Id ra\> i\ demands of us 1- the abilih rk THE presidential elecl • \ . after a uipaign of passed off verj quiet v. H thou^ imon-aenae wen lie w ,,„ \ li^le black rdiam ww ittdnlgvd r,
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