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...grammar will out. When Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune, was in college, he revealed an unusual zeal in mastering the difficulties of the mother tongue. He got his Latin and Greek, but he was always subjecting to an analysis all the English spoken within reach of his hungry ear. He killed off a great number of these verbal savages during his college days and thus in part fitted himself for the office of war correspondent and editor. College graduates have written letters in which there was the following spelling: "colledge," "sundies," "to great," "to fat," "separate." It would...
...proctors of Whitelaw College have organized a nine to give practice to the college nine...
...Robert Whitelaw, the assistant master in Rugby School, has translated the tragedies of Sophocles into English verse...
...Whitelaw, G. G., 27 New Hilton
...Henry Parkes of New South Wales was the guest of the Lotus Club in New York Saturday night. He was welcomed by Whitelaw Reid, president of the club...