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Excerpt from Old and New: Sundry Papers
Although the following essays and addresses form rather a miscellaneous lot, they have this in common, that they treat, in general, of changes in fashion, es pecially in matters of speech and of school. Four of the papers have already appeared in print The Dark Ages, Fashion and the Broad A, Numeric Reform in Nescioubia, Is Modern Language Teach ing a Failure For permission to republish these I gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness respectively to the Secretary of the Modern Language Association of America, the Editor of The Nation, the Secretary of the Simplified Spelling Board of New York, and the.
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