Excerpt from The Yale Banner and Pot Pourri for 1913-1914 Popularly, Professor Lounsbury is most widely known for his many papers that have appeared in the magazines on the proper -use of various words, phrases, and constructions. The rhetoricians, for example, say that the split infinitive is bad. Professor Lounsbury then proceeds to show that it occurs in most of the great writers and that it is sometimes desirable. Some one puts under the ban the word. Female, _and Professor Lounsbury proceeds to a history of the word from Shakespeare down through the lovely females 'of the older novelists and concludes that as an adjective at least the word. Is still indispensable in certain phrases. And so the process has; gone on merrily. But as I said at the beginning, the Yale under graduate does notknow Professor Lounsbury merely by his books; he may hear him, read one of his racy papers, or sit and talk with him by the open fire of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.