The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
EDUCATIONAL.
HVDer-Criticisxu

chief eve suspect the latter), points
his ink-stained pen Of satire at us for
using the expression, "Six students, Of
both sexes, were expelled FROM" etc.
We have very great esteem for our
,1OOrth-y brother, but since he took SIDES
with one or two cheap grammarians,
against Webster's Unabridged Diction-
ary in favor of constituting "WOrth' as
proposition in such expressions as
Ellis opinion is not worth a cent" we
are now disposed to regard his hyper
criticism Of the phrase in question as
mot worth a cent; and must SO hold
until he tells us how it should be
written.
We must protest against his making
us write unreasonable" instead of sun
-seasonable hours" Unreasonable" is
word unknown to Webster's Diction
AIRY, ergo unknown to The JOURNAL,
and probably only to be found in the
grammars that call worth a prepo-
sition, and in the Kenosha Telegr0ph's
educational column.
We also protest, in the name of Muir
rays grammar and the universal Yam
kee language, against his saying in his
educational column of this week: "The
following course Of study for elemen-
tary schools has been prepared by the
best educators Of the State, and we
hope that eUe1y teacher in Kenosha
county will make an effort to intro
,duce it into their schools.
We take the above from the Educa-
tional of the Chicago Evening Jour
nal.
The article referred to was written
by the editor Of the TELEGRAPH and
not by the educational editor, and APP
peared in the editorial and not the edu-
cational column. In writing it we had
no thought of FORGETTING the esteem or
exciting the sensitiveness Of our wor-
th brother of the Journal Educational.
We We're not then aware that "of both
sexes was q favorite phrase of his. In
the same paper from which "Hyper-
Criticism" is taken he uses it twice in
one article, AN HOUR IN A BUSINESS
COLLEGE, as follows: "ample for the
accommodation Of several hundred
students of both sexes" and 1--WE heart
lily commend our young friends Of both
sexes" Being a favorite phrase of his
and he now disposed to regard what
he calls our hyper-criticism Of the
phrase in question as mot worth a
cent, it might be useless to tell him
chow it should be written" When
Ephraim is joined to his idols it may
be best to let him alone.
We took sides against the Journal
Educational and Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary in constituting "worth" as
an adjective in such expressions as
Ellis opinion is not worth cent" but
we did not take sides with one or two
cheap grammarianS in favor of CON
STRUNG it as proposition, for we had
no knowledge Of such grammaraians
We did however construe worth in
such expressions as q proposition and
quoted Webster'S definition of prepo-
sltion making it a proposition and off
set that against his calling it an adj
jActiye when defining it. AS ou1
brother seems to think it sin, Oh
crime, or misdemeanor, or at least d
weakness, to take sides against Web
sters Unabridged Dictionary, will he
do us the justice to print what we said
in the Journal Educational, so that
his readers may judge of it for them.
selves.
The Journal Educational editor SAYS
1--WE must protest against his making
us write inseasonable instead of unsea
sonable." -. Unreasonable
was furnished in the copy but ''insea
sonable" got into type and failed to be
corrected. AS it did not appear in the
educational column, the editor is wrong
in CHASING that column with the gram
mars referred to.
The editor also protests against our
saying in the educational, column
''The following course of stuuy 4oi el-
ementary schools has been prepared by
the best educators of the State, and we
hope that eUe1y teacher in Kenosha
county will make an effort to intro
duc9 it into their schools.
This was furnished By the educa-
tlonal editor and appeared in the edu-
cational column. When reading the
proof, we noticed the relation of "ey-
cry and their one being singular
and the other plural, and thought of
making some correction, but finally