privilege of recommending a young man for the entrance
examinations of your state university. Write to him,
asking that he recommend you. Remember that he is a
stranger to you. What should you tell him?
=Exercise 222.--Mistaken Ideas in Letter Writing=
It is too bad that, to a number of people, the term _business letter_
conveys the idea of a colorless, stilted composition full of trite and
almost meaningless business formulas. No one reads such a letter unless
he has to, and surely that is not the kind one should practice writing.
Below are given a few of the expressions that should be avoided.
I. Sometimes a writer tries to impress a reader with the volume of
business he is doing by showing haste in his correspondence; as, in