Not So Dumb

AN INSTRUCTOR IN Freshman English, receiving a theme remarkable less for the meatiness of its substance than for the floweriness and affectation of its style, returned it to the author with the written comment: "See I Corinthians 14:9." If the freshman followed the suggestion it would lead him to discover Saint Paul recommending simple directness in the following terms: "Except ye utter by the tonguewords easy to be understood, how shall itbe known what is spoken? For ye shallspeak into the air." Evidently '45 did look up the reference and then read beyond it. For on the outside of his corrected theme when he returned it to his instructor was written: "Sir: See I Corinthians 14:38.(This is not meant in a spirit of defiance.)" Professor X turned to the passage indicated and read: "If a man be ignorant, let himbe ignorant."