Life — February 27, 1913 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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Published by THE CENTURY CO. 7. “Give the Greek appellations of the several terms: Tea, Coffee, Snuff and Tobacco, Printer’s Devil, Leather- Breeches-Maker, Steam-Packet, Double- Barrelled Gun, Tag, Rag and Bobtail.” 8. “Why is it probable that Horace, if he could have gotten them, would have worn spectacles? What was his height without his shoes? Signify the color of his complexion by two tropes, one meta- phor and three similes.” 9. “Prove the non-identity of Sylla, the dictator, and Scylla, the sand-bank, and does not the sea of C make all the difference between them?” 10. “Translate the following passage from Tag's Ode to Miss Pickle into a sapphic stanza, both in Greek and Latin: “Not pickled onion, nor yet picked bean, Nor pickled cabbage, either red or green, Nor pickled cucumber, nor pickled Chili, But my own darling little Picklelilly.” 11. “Oxford must, from all antiquity, have been either somewhere or nowhere. Where was it in the time of Tarquinius cus? If it was nowhere, it surely have been somewhere. Where was 12, “Should you, upon consideration, say that the ancients could find the way to their mouths in the dark as well as the moderns? Do you believe the Athenians wore Wellington boots or ate mince pies at Christmas?” 13. “Mention any instances that oc- cur to you of ancients visiting any part of the United States. Are we not to infer from the frequent occurrence of the word yas in their most celebrated authors that the Athenians were per- fectly acquainted with that valuable com- modity 14. "Trace the derivation of pump from n§s, according to the exam- ple afforded you of that of bump from B8s-B8s. lonicé, Boos, per apocopen Bos, poetic Bus, per pepper-castor, and per epenthes in Brun, hence ay easily trace the derivation of pkin and bumpkin.” 15. “State logically, how many tails a cat has.” From these specimens, however much he may admire the erudition they dis- play, the reader will, perhaps, not think very favorably of the utility of univer- sity examinations; but useful they are. The answers would occupy too much space for our limits; suffice it therefore to say, our communicant got off with flying colors, the delight of his connec- tions, and an honor to his house. The answer to the last question, however, amused us so much that we cannot re- frain from giving it 15. “State logically how many tails a cat has.” Ans, “Cats have three tails— no cat has two tails—every cat has one tail more than no cat—ergo, every cat has three tails.” —John Bull. 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