Decent English

Last week Dean Robert Kilburn Root announced that, beginning next autumn, Princeton will have a "hospital for the illiterate," listed in the catalog as "Corrective English." There the freshman whose back is stronger than his syntax will spend eight weeks. If still unable to write a "decent English sentence," he will repeat the course in second term. There will be two more chances in sophomore year. If he persists in failure, the halls of Princeton will see him no more.

Snapped Dean Root, famed English professor: "Split infinitives and dangling participles are not the greatest sins. Some of them don't know how to write a sentence even good enough to have a split infinitive."

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