Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1911 — Our Wonderful Language. [ARTICLE]

Our Wonderful Language.

Speaking before the American Physical Education association In Boston Prof. John M. Tyler of Afhherst cob lege warned bis hearers emphatically against allowing girls from ten to fifteen years of age to over-exercise, hammering his Ideas home with this scintillating nugget of philosophy: “Too much of nothing is good That may be true in Boston, perhaps the less of its greatest notoriety seeking product the better; but we hope the professor won t seek to apply his self-reversible theory to Jobnny Meehan’s Park row dougbnuts, nor yet to our debtors’ bank balance. Which reminds us of the old word »!«,: “It rains or it does not rate. Therefore, if it does not rain, U rains.” The Sun once called this a “logical fallacy of reciprocation of mutually exclusive terms.” That’s just what Professor Tyler’s nugget is, a fallacy It you don’t believe It, get too muett of nothing and see If it will be good,