Excerpt from Indiana School Journal, 1875, Vol. 20: Organ of the State Teachers' Association and of the Superintendent of Public InstructionWords which were originally compounds of the noun man, with a prefix, such chairman, salesman, horseman, etc, have been a source of trouble to writers, sometimes, on account of their overlooking the obvious fact that man, in such words, is used generically. And therefore does not express gender. It is strictly in accordance with the English idiom to call a woman at the head of a committee, a chairman, or a woman who sells goods, 11 sales man, etc.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.