A SCALE FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF THE QUALITY OF ENGLISH
     COMPOSITION

     BY MILO B. HILLEGAS

     VALUE 0.  Artificial sample

     Letter

Dear Sir:  I write to say that it aint a square deal Schools is I say they is I went to a school. red and gree green and brown aint it hito bit I say he don’t know his business not today nor yeaterday and you know it and I want Jennie to get me out.

     VALUE 183.  Artificial sample

     My Favorite Book

the book I refer to read is Ichabod Crane, it is an grate book and I like to rede it.  Ichabod Crame was a man and a man wrote a book and it is called Ichabod Crane i like it because the man called it ichabod crane when I read it for it is such a great book.

     VALUE 260.  Artificial sample

     The Advantage of Tyranny

Advantage evils are things of tyranny and there are many advantage evils.  One thing is that when they opress the people they suffer awful I think it is a terrible thing when they say that you can be hanged down or trodden down without mercy and the tyranny does what they want there was tyrans in the revolutionary war and so they throwed off the yok.

     VALUE 369.  Written by a boy in the second year of the high
     school, aged 14 years

     Sulla as a Tyrant

When Sulla came back from his conquest Marius had put himself consul so sulla with the army he had with him in his conquest siezed the government from Marius and put himself in consul and had a list of his enemys printy and the men whoes names were on this list we beheaded.

     VALUE 474.  Written by a girl in the third year of the high
     school, aged 17 years

     De Quincy

     First:  De Quincys mother was a beautiful women and through her
     De Quincy inhereted much of his genius.

     His running away from school enfluenced him much as he roamed
     through the woods, valleys and his mind became very
     meditative.

     The greatest enfluence of De Quincy’s life was the opium
     habit.  If it was not for this habit it is doubtful whether we
     would now be reading his writings.

His companions during his college course and even before that time were great enfluences.  The surroundings of De Quincy were enfluences.  Not only De Quincy’s habit of opium but other habits which were peculiar to his life.

     His marriage to the woman which he did not especially care
     for.

     The many well educated and noteworthy friends of De Quincy.

     VALUE 585.  Written by a boy in the fourth year of the high
     school, aged 16 years

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