No English Better Than English

A new argument against college athletics has been iuvented - the deplorable effect which they have on "good English" by grafting npon it "the coarse langnage of sports. " The plea, says the New Yórk Times, is truly amnsing. What on earth is "good English" anyhow ? So far as we know, there is no English better than English, and no writer thereof has ever hesitated to use new words from any sonrce, provided they expressed an idea more clearly, or even more pictnresquely, than did those which foriued the vooabulary of his grandfather. Shakespeare is full of the "language of sports," rangingfrom falconry to pugilism, and if he lived today it is absolutely certain that he would glean words from the football flelds and that college professors would denounce him for it. Really great men are like the common people, in that they never make a fetioh of the parts of speech, never imagine that dictionaries or grammars settle anything, and never make the mistake of oonfounding a live tougue with dead ones.