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To Willy Strunk!
Editor: It is encouraging to read (March
Alumni News) that The Elements of
Style is required reading in several thousand
college English courses. Actually,
its influence in academe is a good deal
wider than that. Most manuals of scientific
writing that I know of recommend
Strunk and White.
Robert Day writes: "If you have any
interest whatsoever in learning to use
English effectively, you should read
Strunk and White's The Elements of
Style. . . . Anyone writing anything
should read and use this famous 'little
book' " (Day, R.A. 1982. How to Write
and Publish a Scientific Paper, 2ά ed.
ISI Press, Philadelphia, p. 146).
Day, a relatively new manual, is required
reading in my course The Literature
of Biology (a core course in the major
in Biology at Bemidji State), but I
have required The Elements of Style ever
since I began to teach the course, almost
twenty years ago. I suspect such use of
Strunk and White in courses outside of
departments of English is widespread; I
hope so.
Evan B. Hazard'51
Bemidji, Minn.
The writer is professor of biology at
Bemidji State U.
Editor: The two articles about E.B.
White in the February and March issues
of CAN, by Prof. Scott Elledge, were
marvelous, bringing together the details
of White's Cornell experience and especially
his relationship with Professor
Strunk and Strunk's little book, Elements
of Style. I have long been an admirer
of Andy White, about whom I
have heard ever since I was chosen by
Prof. Martin Sampson to become a
member of The Manuscript Club, to
which White had belonged a few years
before me. The portrait of White on the
cover of the February issue made me
Housekeeping's "Your Money" column
gives readable explanations and concrete
advice on how and when to spend, borrow,
save, and invest.
wonder if Cornell seniors in our day always
looked as young as he did.
Elledge describes Strunk's Elements
of Style as a forty-three-page pamphlet
in its original form. When I was a freshman,
three years after White's graduation,
all first-year English classes had to
buy copies of the Strunk book, which he
had copyrighted in 1918. My copy was
published by Harcourt, Brace and Company
in 1920. I bought it second-hard. It
had obviously been used by some former
student or students before 1924.
My copy had a sort of hard cover and
contained fifty-two pages. As a sophomore,
when White took Strunk's English
8 class, he may have used an earlier
pamphlet. Surely he must have known
about the Harcourt-Brace edition, which
appeared in his junior year. Elledge
doesn't mention that edition or explain
how Macmillan acquired the 1920 Harcourt,
Brace copyright for the enormously
popular Strunk-White edition of
1959.
White's revision of the original text
was minimal, and the new edition, which
must have astonished Strunk's ghost, retains
the eight basic rules of usage that
were impressed on Cornell freshmen for
many years. White's essay on style,
Chapter V in the new edition, replacing
Strunk's Chapter V, "Words and Expressions
Commonly Misused," is the
best analysis of that subject ever written,
in my judgment. The glowing style of its
»author superbly illustrates his points.
After thirty-eight years, White said in his
introduction to the 1959 edition, he had
been "delighted to study it [the original
text] again and to discover its rich deposits
of gold." His additions put a lovely
polish on that gold!
During the twelve years after my retirement
from the Foreign Service, I was
professor of English at the Marine Corps
Command and Staff College, at Quantico,
Virginia. There I continued to use