In the course of drafting his story, Chandler was no less annoyed by Hollywood than by a new unlikely foe: an Atlantic copy editor, who’d shown the temerity to fix a split infinitive in his text.

Clare Leonard '08.5 may indeed be the only person under the age of 50 who enjoys enforces the split-infinitives "rule," but she writes, in her letter ("Poor writing can be found just about anywhere," ...

Not long ago a pained letter came from a high school senior in a Midwestern state. At her earnest request, she remains nameless and stateless. She wrote: "In an assigned editorial about the war in ...