. Bates Student. Nobody has any objection to using modern businessor laboratory equipment. The latest fashion is the primenecessity of life for some. Why, then, should we fear newnessin spelling? Suppose we ar out of line, it might be wellto notis what company we hav; who ar some of the cranks thatsupport and approve of simplified spelling? The advisorycouncil of the Simplified Spelling Board includes, not manyhigh school principals or college instructors, it is true, butcollege presidents and professors, the foremost edcuators, severaleditors, poets, authors, and men of affairs. The Independe


. Bates Student. Nobody has any objection to using modern businessor laboratory equipment. The latest fashion is the primenecessity of life for some. Why, then, should we fear newnessin spelling? Suppose we ar out of line, it might be wellto notis what company we hav; who ar some of the cranks thatsupport and approve of simplified spelling? The advisorycouncil of the Simplified Spelling Board includes, not manyhigh school principals or college instructors, it is true, butcollege presidents and professors, the foremost edcuators, severaleditors, poets, authors, and men of affairs. The Independentand the Outlook ar amung the prominent magazines in whosecolumns appear many of the reforms suggested in the Fourthofficial list. There is nothing over-radical in simplified spelling. It onlyrepresents a concerted, intelligent, sane, systematic, effort ofmen in authority (if you worship at that shrine), to restorewriting to its original, legitimate, offis of recording speech in-telligently and MAGAZINE SECTION 127 WITH THE PROCESS OF THE SUNS By LB. P., 17 The day was warm and sweet, as an April day should man was very young and his tasks had been his books, he went to walk in the fresh, cool woodwhere frolicsome birds twittered their welcome and mayflowersinvited him to play hide-and-seek with them. But he passedthem by, gloomily wishing for some human companion, someoneto chat with him in his own language and arouse his indolentspirit with gay laughter. Suddenly, among the mossy trees, he espied someone seatedon a green bank, among the ferns and grasses— a pretty younggirl with her lap full of flowers and her feet swinging in timeto the song which he now heard distinctly. She met his pleasedand wondering look with an unembarrassed smile and calledcheerily to him, *You were looking for me, werent you? Alittle rudely, the man asked, Who are you, and from wheredo you come to invade my wood? You must be some littlefairy, such as I hav


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