Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-12-18
SPOKEN ENGLISH III COLLEGES.


Some one has sa that ones culture shown by way
speaks tongue. the of the
English tongue teachers of that language will testify that it is
harder to interest pupil in his mother tongue than in
oher-Latn French German and Others Indeed he will take
pride times saying he IS pursuing foreign language but is
fully satisfied with what he knows about his perfectly
tent if he communicate his thoughts regardless of the sort OF
vehicle in which they conveyed.
1t is encouraging to that colleges taking pains
note not only the ability students to write their Ian
guag but also the in which they vocal
The voice is the medium of daily thought communication and
generally taken to just how words artcuaed
nor how our vo ce is used
The Springfield Republican takes occasion that the
recent Hoyoe college that nearly
half of students admitted college during the
years have had defect of speech to bear out fact al
ready indicated Smith, where the proportion has been
what smaller however, being about onethrd of the Freshmen
year since the spoken English examination has been
required Probably similar in other colleges would show
much the stuat on
No one who hes travelled at ell through this country
mingled with the people from all social strata affirm that the
speech of national asset Nasaty sured enunci
ation stammering suffering spng faulty breath control
ind for which bills be
turned Smith making definite effort to correct bad speech
among it's students through it's voice clinic conjunction with the
department of spoken English Mount Hoyoke is also seeking to
correct the fault though with less formal machinery wellesley
certain amount of training from all it's students
On the whole the crusade for better and beautiful speech
expression of personality is making Roadway.
But there tendency ascribe this low grade kind of
speech another language which
lated to the spoken tongue that the ephener vulgar
vocabulary which slang Some authorities bewang
the desueue into which elegant speech has fallen the
cassness and ncoectness with which words used by
the educated.
Undoubtedly college campus of the most fertile fields
for the spontaneous creation of slang There yar which
like fever through Wellesley winter when the popular sport
of the moment sliding down hill on tin trays whence the
derived by simple of reversing the spelling of tray
word which popped up recently na meaning extremely
opoftica in Short the 1926 model of the earlier slang word
snooty Whether the word related to Lewis CAROLS mythical
shark was not disclosed
1t unfa however to blame the western, the east
nasal twang similar defects slang Surely snarky
be said beautifully dar AS for slang ITSELF though
the growth of hour and becomes out of date overnight
evident when the eune file declares "boy friend already
odashioned that old maids it, it essentially
of the spirit not of the but of the hour the popu
lar mood and lends certain kind of eeescence and vitality
the language without which speech would inclusive
complete history of life
For slang whatever its defects and vulgares una ngy
responsive to current whm and fashion, folk growth
and the ncessan flicker of soeys Kaleidoscope would
bright though perhaps classic without it. At the time
the new spoken English the womes colleges
actually inspired by it. they have of their The
mems colleges might well show the concern.