HIGHACKES COLLEGIAN
COMBINED MEETING REID
A combined meeting of the news paper
staff and the Belle lethre Society was
held on Feb,, Ml* 1958 in the Botany Lab.
The meeting was conductor! by Tom lvaxwell;
Editor in Grief of the Higkarres Collegian.
The meeting ovas not well attended* but
the newsuaonr did acquire toree new mem
bers, (Tad Minor; John Zisek, & Donald
Zanoline)n
At the meeting $ Mr. Maxwell mentioned that
if the newspaper or Belle Lettre Society
received any worthy fiction? non-fiction,
drac.*, ox- pootic writing it well be sent
to Bantam .Books for thexr newest edition
Cwr.pus fr'riting., live Maxwell also
Toned' lliat* the newspaper is acquiring
tyn.r/vrviiar;, Now all that we need is
avr.ttier ••vp.Lst'-
A ec~.it. tee comprised of Ted Minor* Stan
Zdo'c>. Jo!in Sodnor.- and Olga Markus was
appointed by Mr. Maxwell to try to improve
character of the articles printed by
Tha papery
Kafka, faculty advisor of the Colleg
ian aud for. Schneider, assistant adminis
trative head, were in attendance at the
mooting and gave several helpful suggest
s to the newspaper staff on improving
biweekly issue*
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f'.iere ain’t nothing wrong with ain't
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Wilfred Funk (The American Weekly)
I have a friend who came out of college
and landed a job as a minor boss in a
trucking company* "hen his gang was loading
a van he would say, "Get those crates
on the truck," His men sulked themselves
into a slowdown and finally refused to work
for him at all# Then he took to saying,
"Get them crates on the truck," and suddenly
he was a respected foreman and a pal#
If you ask me for a match and I say, "I
ain’t got none," I will have double
negatived you into a complete understand
ing of my deplorable deficiency, but
five will get you 10 that I won’t be invited
to your next cocktail party, and that you
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FEB# 28, 19.58
will look the other way when we pass oi
the street*
Grammar, you seej is really what your
hearers expects saw him" might g*
you the jaundiced eye from those
truckers I mentioned, and "I seen him
might spell the end. of your social a ■■
pirations elsewhere* Yet both are
"correct*" It all depends on the orbi
in which you happen to be moving..'
I don’t recommend speech with the stig
ma of outlawry on it# Certainly you
won’t get the best job with it# But
don’t try to tell me it’s incorrect.-,
It is merely unacceptable on some
levelso
Now who are the special villains who
wished all this grammatical nonsense
on u-s’* The double negative, for inst-
ance »*
Well, back in ! Bth century England,
Latin was the language of the court
and the 'intelligentsia# The bigwigs
of that time decided to push for a
"universal world grammar" suitable fo:
all times and all languagesbasso,
of course > on classical Latin*
The fact that its structure was rad
ically different from English didn't
feaze the eager reformers in the least.
So, in 1762, Robert Lowth, a pompous
British divine, got out a book called
Short Introduction to English Grammar,
intended to "lay down the rules" and,
in addition, to "judge every form and
construction."
This boy was his own authority# He
needed no help from nobody.. He said
that two negatives destroy each other
and make a positive* He just said it,
right out of his own head and, ever
since, we’ve been stuck with it* This
means that when your son says, "I
don’t want no spinach;" his tongue
should really be hanging out for it©
But Bishop Lowth wasn’t even a good
Latin scholar, Latin, Greek too, are
full of double negatives, used for
emphasis# The modern Frenchman still
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