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TKe Alumni We are working thank you. All alumni should work. It ' s the thing that ' s being done by those who know. Even our most intelligent citizens are being influenced by the philosophy of work not toil or labor, but just everyday old-fashioned w ork. The glam- our of war time has passed and now: the job ' s the thing. The world is a pretty big place after all and just now it needs w illing workers; people who do a job, not hold a position. And would you believe it? Work makes you happy. If you could have been present at the last meeting of the alumni, the biggest and best ever, you would agree. Everybody there had a job. True some had been promoted from the classroom to the home and have been entrusted with the greatest job of all; bringing up their own children. Every- body looked happy, so happy that I ' m sure that any Chautauqua lecturer, had he been present, would have begun his talk with, As I look into your smiling young faces, etc. You ' d have to travel many a mile to see a finer looking crowd. And best of all, that look didn ' t come from superficial things. It was the result of the consciousness of work well done and ideals held intact. Do you realize that it means something to be a Montclair graduate? Montclair graduates and good teaching are synon- ymous in the minds of most schoolmen of the State of New Jersey., You who are ready to enter the profession have a reputation to uphold. An ideal is like the family silver. It stays bright and untarnished only if you use it. Use yours and in so doing you wilt become one of a large body who are standing for the best things that Montclair gives us. The teaching profession today needs well-trained workers. Never before in mod- ern times has the importance of the teacher as a factor in national growrth been so empha- sized. The public is keenly conscious of and responsive to the proposition that a nation is as strong as its schools. This is particularly true in a democracy. The teacher is gaining a place in the sun. He is receiving a larger salary, better schools and more opportunities for professional advancement. But there is an inexorable law of compensation which ia always operating in this old world of ours. When the public gives its money, it demands something in return. People are more intelligently critical today of the teaching profession than ever before; and justly so. Professional standards are being raised and the inefficient teacher is being looked upon with increasing disfavor. Two weeks ago 1 heard one of our ow n state legislators say that he believed in increasing the salaries of teachers and had consistently voted for such increases, but that he felt that he would be just as consistent in hiring the best he could get, and eliminating the inefficient. Many of our alumni are real- izing their responsibility to the public and are furthering their professional training by attend- ing extension courses in New York or other conveniently located centers. Include some- thing of the sort in your program when you begin to teach. Education today is a live, vibrating thing. It ts changing and developing from week to v eek. To follow its course is intensely interesting; to feel that you are a small factor in its development is inspiring. I can think of no field of endeavor, at this time, in which there are more opportunities for national service, individual growth and adequate financial re- turns, than in the teaching profession. And so for the Alumni of the Montclair State Normal School I extend to you a hearty welcome into our ranks. May you always be true to the spirit of Montclair, always con- scious of the high place you hold in the hearts of the nation and always full of the happiness that a life of service alone can bring you. Class of 1922 we greet you! The Alumni of M. S. N. S. WALLACE M. BROADBENT, President. 14
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Slang To the American people as a whole have been assigned many faults, but perhaps the commonest accusation brought against us is our careless, inaccurate, and slangy habits of speech. We speak without thought, using the words and expressions that come first to our minds, regardless of their fitness or elegance. We misuse our adjectives until we lose sight of all finer distinctions and are unable to find words to express the difference be- tween awful w eather and an aw ful tragedy. We speak with as much enthusiasm of our love for chocolate macaroons as we do of our love for some person vsrho is dear to us. Moreover, our speech is often ungrammatical. Many people, who could speak correct English, if they would, and who even pride themselves on their ability, will calmly say — It don ' t matter. It is a regrettable truth, in these days, that he who speaks simply and correctly, yet with telling effect, is the unusual person. Very often, too, we are careless in our enunciation. We slur our words and phrases We speak of boys ' n girls for boys and gfrls, I saw ' em for I saw them, ' k ' u for thank you and yeh for But perhaps worst of all our faults in speech is nr use of Slang. By definition Slang is inelegant and unauthorized popular language, consisting of words and expressions of low or illiterate origin and use, or of legitimate expressions, used in grotesque, irregular, or metaphorical senses not approved by reputable usage and good taste. It is practically impossible to go about among young people, and even among many older people, without hearing slang in some form. In passing two boys on the street, one may overhear a bit of conversation on this order — ' Ho, got your Caesar? Nope — not all of it — ' sno cinch, believe me! Say ' ve you read this book? Its hot stuff; take it from me. For the love o Mike, look at that Lizzie — some class — ' ey wot? I ' ll say so! A little further one one may overhear two girls And I said, ' Wa ' de ya ' take me for! ' Here, have some candy. Thanks, I will. I love ' em, they ' re terribly good but horribly expensive. Say, will you look at that hat! Isn ' t that perfectly killing? Well, I should say — it ' s a perfect scream! That color ' s a crime! And it is not only on the street that one hears such things. In the best-regulated Nor- mal Schools we hear, Cut it out! Have a heart! You tell ' em! You ' ve got bats in your belfry, Dawggone it, or some other equally elegant expression. It has been said in favor of slang that there are some words or phrases peculiarly apt w hich express ideas with especial force and vividness. This is partially true. I can ' t think of any words quite so descriptive of the kind of basket ball game one likes to see as peppy and snappy, nor of any expression that can quite so well describe the conversation of some people as hot air, vulgar though it is, nor any term quite so characteristic of a certain type of people as buffers. Neither do I know of any phrase that so fits the attitude of a certain few as being on the fence. Yet all of these are undoubtedly slang and certainly not according to Hoyle. It is the constant use of such expressions that render them aa monotonous as they were once refreshing. Francis H. Lee says in an article on the origin of slang that one great trouble with slang is that it often profanes or renders ludicrous something that occurs in a sublime or pathetic scene. He gives as an illustration of this an incident in Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities. When Sidney Carton with sublime self-sacrifice gives his life for his friend, his head falls into the executioner ' s basket as the knitting women, who are counting off the num- ber of victims, say, Twenty-three. It is almost impossible to repress a smile because of the meaning peculiarly appropriate here — suggested by the slang association of the expres- sion. 15
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