Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-24

tude are wont to use. But at the best,
such style or address Is forced, super
fetal It is often productive Of discorn--33
fort In i cases, positive irritation. as
the unfnitiated listen. and wonder. why,
with such resources in plain, exfoliated
Englisll, II Is necessary to resort to the
dead, though not buried, languages,
and to purely technical phrase to exc
press ideas. Ri
at Yale at last Commencement whose
graduation papers e heses Is the ne
Academic nomenclature. -were on about
as q pstruse a couple of topics as tile
bored layman would care to sit up VI
under with unwilted shirt collar. One g,
young man was given his medical de-
gree after "h5lding his audience en-
trancedp With his thesis, the character
OF which may be imagined from It's
title, THE IntracelluMr Enzy1nes n Of.
Pendulum and Espergilus, with sp 'e'5
ciaI Reference to Those of. the Pen
cilium cammenlberti." Before an on. aud I'd
ience of wholly professional men suc en-
d title might pass as tolerable; n ''1l y y
would be considered in better TASTE s'''
even in such surroundings, were the
reader to content himself with the
statement that his gradua ton paper
was on the subject OF fermenta ton Ion OF
two forms Of bacilll IN 5 1stir le's
$growths. a 18th special reference to the ne
bacillus iii severed by Caminempertus.'
The second young man was given yen the the
degree OF doctor Of philosophy on q
thesis the title of which was ~ Gen Gen
Seralized Definition of an Improper N 'lE'l
Btiple Integral This is a problem IN
integral Calculus indicating in gem!
eral way, SO a Salt Lake expert say
that while for the most part formulas $:
may be devised descriptive OF any
curve, a point may be reached where
a multiplicity of convolutions do not
admit OF Interpretation through any
known formulas. Considerable inquiry
was made before any one could be
found who would venture even this ex-9
PLANTATION, members OF the engineering
staff Of local road suddenly renem-i
bering with more or less distressed ex-
preston that they had forgotten Just,
that particular feature in their Cal
sculus. Certain eastern papers, affect
ing to make merry over the thesis
titles referred to, are disposed to read
these young Academicians in partic-
Sular and all graduating students IN
general, q fatherly lecture on the child
Eishness Of overlooking their contribu-s
lions to Commencement literature with
a verbal Horticulture that shuts out
from viey many and very good ideas,
as q superfiuous growth of pond lilies
covers from sight, the waters OF a
pond. Latin terms have their place In
technical phraseology where they prove
of value. in their way; but to make an
sindiscriminate use Of foreign terms ana
expressions in a graduation paper.
where there is really no excuse for IT.
We'll, 1t may be question whether it
does not reflect more on the common
sense of professors and Instructors In
encouraging this sort OF thing, rather
than ON the misguided sense OF the
student whose unchecked. youthful ex-
aggeration of the Importance OF the
pedantic and ponderous in essay writ
ing has led him into expressing his;
thoughts In this nebulous, cloudy
fashion. a
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