a hurtful thing and a mistake.
Here is an extract from the prospectus of a Kentucky ‘Female College.’
Female college sounds well enough; but since the phrasing it in
that unjustifiable way was done purely in the interest of brevity,
it seems to me that she-college would have been still better–
because shorter, and means the same thing: that is, if either phrase
means anything at all–
‘The president is southern by birth, by rearing, by education,
and by sentiment; the teachers are all southern in sentiment,
and with the exception of those born in Europe were born and raised
in the south. Believing the southern to be the highest type of
civilization this continent has seen,’ the young