DAVID SWING ON GRAMMAR IN COLLEGES.

"Our bad grammar will out. When Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune, was in college, he revealed an unusual zeal in mastering the difficulties of the mother tongue. He got his Latin and Greek, but he was always subjecting to an analysis all the English spoken within reach of his hungry ear. He killed off a great number of these verbal savages during his college days and thus in part fitted himself for the office of war correspondent and editor. College graduates have written letters in which there was the following spelling: "colledge," "sundies," "to great," "to fat," "separate." It would be interesting to learn the individual history of such an alumnus, but it might be the history would be one of a comparative triumph-the history of one who, at the age of eighteen knew almost nothing, but who had then toiled hard and had reached the substance of common knowledge and education."