Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-11-29

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We have been reminded by the FREE
Pass that its denial OF our charge against
1t Of unfairness in quoting President HUI
bert's address at Meridep, has not been no.
ticed by US. We give the sentence of which
we complained as it is in the original copy,
and as quoted by the FREE Pass
AS PRINTED BY 1HE Az A. eUo1ED IHE FREE
THOR. PRESS.
In asserting that a In asserting that a
/ young may be in young man may be IN
college. while deficient college, while deficient
| of a common school edu- OF a common school edu-
cation, IL degrades the cation, II degrades the
college in the popular college in the popular
estimate into a frivollty, estimate, into iryolity
idle as a painted ship 'iule painted ship
upon painted ocean" upon painted ocean
By this error in punctuation the word
idle" is made to modify ''irlyolity, In
stead OF college" which OF course,
changes the sense in fact. makes nonsense
of the sentence. But the FREE Pass dis
disclaims any intentional peryersion OF the
address. This is probably true Yet II
occurs to Us that the newspaper which at
tempts to criticise an address which IT
quotes enormously, might justly be suspect
ed of acting from jealousy or spite
Montpelier Journal.
In aCqui;ting us Of any Intentional per-
version of President ilulbert's address, the
Journal. ~ We take 1t, withdrsws It's
charge Of Sow trickery" brought against
US, In this matte. But We deny that there
has been any perversiop, intentional ur ut
Intentional, of President Hubert language
or meaning The Journal originally assert
ed that the omission Of the comma after
frivolity changed entirely the grammari-
cal construction of the sentence We
challenged the Journal to point out any
particular in which the construction was
changed. 1t could not do 50. Now
it falls back on the assertion that
the omission changes the sense. "
This We deny. The grammatical construc-
ton and the sense remain the same with or
without the comma: and whether it is
placed alter estimate" or after "frivolity."
In either case, idle" modiies "iriyolity."
II it modified college We mi BIT trsnspose
the parts, without ibjuring the sense, thus ::
I'm the popular estimate it degrsdes the
college idle as painted ship upon painted
ocean, into a irivolIty." Did President
Hubert mean that? L. it not plain that
he meant that II ceprades the college into
;,l, ,,;rol;,v-;dIa no ,ai,,ed sb,, orc ,
q"
by any ehsfitaoie judgment tna' must DC
taken to be what he meant to say. though
il leaves him opeu to the charge of absurdly
n;srs;r, rho ono,a,;on-f,r the idlensss of
f,,vol;,v ia onire a different Thin, from the
.I.-t; ws.I
iu''"''' VI '''''1 up
vance our own uIsuppPoroeu opin-
ion as authoritative on the point
here at issue. After We had been charg-
=. d. ,.,;
'u WV" q"
which wrought an ehtife chshse Oh tne
grammatical construction. and change OF
sensc IN norsense. We submitted the sen.
-, -, o.;.;,,l,,, ,tl;.h,d hr ,ba A.,
,hnr I'D sono,.d 70 ssvs,,l ,sarned gram
ma,;on. on,s;do Of Rrr,in,,on 90 we'll .s,o
.o :, H. o;,r o,o aIoro fubo Rod
n-,h. hIv coo, tho Joy,,oy, remarks abore
o,o,od, er,,o,ssd tho op;n;on that the an
thor nrob.blv meant "colleoe idl, utboupb
he adds. he ttbe autbor) did not saw 80
We ouo,e from this ,nipion.
81 sunnose the aptbor means III, colJese
idle, etc. but it seems to me he does not
say 80. think the NEST natural way, as
, une r"' .1,,rnI;,r, ~ ,;,bo. ca n s,,,od
The whole sentence is badly constructed. IN
my op'h'on
The opinions oil all the others are aptlv
summarized in tho following, from one OF
tnem
nre al the scntenc co snbmitted nv Won. sbows
that somebody Is indeed deficient of
common school education AS under
makes no difference in the grammatical con-
struction OF the sentence. In either case
.ne Worc Me mCuints r,oo"'y' anu' as l
-, III Ill -,
o.. -. :. a. Ill,
Dus We w NV 'on,'ue' ~ k"'
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'en'poi"'S VIZ" nav f1''a
ADDRESS was sehi 10 PSI IN pfihteu pam
phiet. Tor notice and review. Ike other pub
locations. Ii was open to fair criticism. as
to matter and style. We yentured to re-
mark that college presidents should set US
ho.,or arl.. Of E,,I;s,, oounos;,;on
thsh tho sentence quotea. ihis miiu sug-
geston was magnifed by the Journal into
a, ..osso,I,- nm p-a.i3ont U,Ihsrt and tho
.:., -. aLeI...r.. ,.:.I
uuin'en''onai anu 3o'OialeS immatei'ai
shifting OF comma was Characterized as
Glow trick :" etc. The Sprinpfie,d RepubE-
II
I'm 'ooA up Tut ~a''ei' Huu' a'0'p'ins Us
truthful thc Journals misstatements, H.
stance, the supposed case of intentional
;a.