Pure Beauties of English Speech
Must Be Guarded by Wise Teaching
for Young, Says Dagmar Perkins
[Richelieu's Wisdom in
Founding Academy 'Ex
ample to America.'
NATIVE BORN ARE LAX
[National Culture Rests 011
( ommon Language,
Writer Shows.
BABKL CALLED DISCORD
Clan nishn ess Feared if Aliens
Do Not Learn to Use Tongue
of Adopted Land.
By DAGMAR PERKINS,
Bryn Mawr, A. B. President of the
National Auociation to ImproT*
American Speech.
FEW people remember that the
French Academy, tha Parnas- j
sua of the world of to-day, had
Its origin in the reign of I/Ouis XIV.;
It existed then as a literary coterie,
?n-htch held its meetings In Paris, and
It had becomo famous for the cele
brated names of the various members,
for th? brilliancy of wit and wisdorn
said to be omnipresent, and for the
Intellectual status It was admitted to
possess.
