The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-31
THE NEGLECT OF SPELLING.

turning out as GOOD SpelieTS as III
old way of cutting up" and spelling
bees in the days of the Blue Bacl
speller?
Some of the college presidents thlnl
not and are troubled because meI
complete the college course wlthou
knowing how to spell. Prof. Whipple
Of Cornell, has brought this matte
sharply to public attention by giving
the result Of the examination Of fifty
eight college students. In the fifty
eight examination papers examined a
Cornell, Prof. Whipple discovered 16f
was made several times by the same
student or once by several students
They occurred after the papers haC
been returned to the students for re-
vision with a special demand for cor
rection of orthography, and in no case
have errors been included that were
Of a certainty mere slips Of the pen
Prof. Whipple, in order to emphasize
the need Of more attention to spell
ing, conceived the idea Of writing a
letter purporting to be from a student
to his aunt in which would be used at
tho errors in spelling in the Efty-eight
papers OF course, it is understood
that no student would make all the
errors in this letter, but no student OF
those m was exempt from
making some Of them. Here is a por-
ton Of the letter, taken from the
New York Times, in which, as that
Taper says the nature of the students
lncapacity and defective training is
therefore shown as fairly as it is strik-
inglys::
Dear Aunt-Today I received my
diploma, and now. hank forum, ]
am educated. l have not vet iutirely
determined my carere. Wheather I
shal finally earn my Iivlihood by going
into the soliciting business as nv
uncles p~ardOner Will dipind on his
preferences. AT any rate, laborous and
humlilatlng manuel pursuits are furth-
crest from my Intentions, as L am
conclous already that the university
environment has proved particularly
valuabl TO me in evry way. Ny in
telle2nal complement has been ad-
tansed harmOnously, by immetation
Of the best sholars my vocabular has
been strengthened; suberStitjous all
most as bad as those of the heathern
have been analised and proved in
correct to me; my inaetiative has been
and intencified; socially / am
We'll occupied and i~ncidenti!y he
rough eyes used to show have been
e~leminaiad; again. the d%iscipiine 7
have received from the practice work
III the laboratories Of nhyssicS a,d
chefnistery, where persistence, court-
sly, CONSCIOUSNESS and similar ouaIi-
ties are dehnately emphazed. and the
knowledge | have received from The
lectnrs and discussions Of nv nrof-
fessors IN bonay, rhitoric, athmatic
physiology, ect. should be a soursa IF
inestin1atible benift to me from wbat
ever angel it is regarded"
NO college should give its dinIoma
10 q man VINO does not master smell
ing because it is fundamental II is
ansurd 70 say that a man who can
master Greek and comic sa.t;oaa
cannot learn to spell if he givas ,.m
self over to it's mastery. i
That is good news that
Wadesboro and Wilson in tbis SIN tvl1
Recently IN Wadesboro the Ma.sas
ger ana inauenrataa
spelling contest to be particinataS %
by the pupils OF the graded schon1
VI nna' .omh' me prize winner. John
speillng accurately a list Of ona 49,
dfed words, many of them uha+ IL
known as catch words" Miss az are
Horton missed only one wora a7, dhos
the one hundred Other scores were ..
81; Daisy McCaskilI, se: M, <esetf,
Teal, 90; Sallie Teal, a5: al Lee
Horne; %; George Huntley, %: In,isna
In Wilson. Mr.. Privett pave
cup 10 the school that could smell ni Ne
best and the Wilson school snei1 the
NAH naxe S w1n IN spirited spirited and close co ,ltnan
ana Goiasbor rn''0se4 OF Rocky Mount
contest between the victorio,sss $50 IN a
school cnIidren. led by Char11a eaoed
Daniels Jr, and the grov5n@ns G
b + +. Lane. in a pubic ~ led