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This page satirizes American secondary education through fake college entrance exam answers. The "Education" section presents deliberately absurd student responses to literature and history questions—evidence that schools are failing to prepare students for intellectual life. Examples of the humor: students claim "Emerson's poems teach immorality," define a hypochondriac as "insane, but not enough so to be kept in a house," and state "Mercury [is the] Greece God of rain." The satire suggests students are either illiterate or their teachers are incompetent. The accompanying "Magicians Wanted" advertisement (likely tongue-in-cheek) sarcastically requests magicians who can fix society's problems—implying that fixing education and social ills requires actual magic, not ordinary solutions. The page critiques both educational standards and, implicitly, the gap between what schools claim to teach and what students actually learn.

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Education TH following excerpts from en- trance examination papers at a representative New England college show how well our secondary schools are preparing for life: Every one of Emerson's poems teaches immorality. Demodocus was the first dish-thrower. The most famous passage in Snow- Bound begins, “ What is so rare as a day in June!” The Merchant of Venice suggests that we should be careful how we meddle with another man’s wife, for she may prove to be our own, Many authors’ works keep their lives alive. Portia showed humor when she raised a row over the ring. One of the most thing I admire is Odlysseus building the raft and sail away a short time after he is gone Poseidon wreck him and he has to swim ashore and lose all of his thing which is on the raft. The first book printed in America was the Back Bay Psalm Book. Thanatopsis teaches us that everyone should be willing to meet their finale. Emerson's poetry shows threw out that he saw with the sole. Johnson thoroughly masticated — the English language. A hypochondriac is a person who is To insane, but not enough so to be kept in Alder a house. ple, a The quarril ended by Cassius tell fat, i him that he was getting knocked on all seats sides, and that he had inherated a tend- cross ency to speak harsh when he was mad instea Mercury—Greece God of rain. end a Fragrant Saazer Hops penne Two aflieted with argue This Ant F ZA Cacdmon parfrazed the bible. those he ser Basch import the pick of Jonathan Edwards married and for ple ha the world’s finest hops from the dis- wi ved! hs ith: his con- fet oF p m the twenty years lived happily with his con press t Shuck Saaz, Bohemia. It’s this ex- gregation. suggest lusive Saazer Hop flavor which Franklin was the first great American. should puts their master brew First, he invented the printing press. this se! ; Second, he married the girl what made requir fun of him. cross s er ERM. eee ALONE AT THE TOP = oe selfishny . 5 People Supreme in Qualiny and Purity» Genuine Chihuahia gl see ream 7 venie gulp 2 : densa ef al 315 enienci of America’s Barley fields, Budweiser Aaa i amen by ebrcuea to moth won fame everywhere. Bottled only at the home plant in St. Louis Anheuser-Busch Brewery,St.Louisl Magicians Wanted ANTED—Magicians. Magicians who have specialized in political and social matters. Magicians who can look over the ficld, comprehend all the mistakes we have made The Wright Oral School, One, Two and Thr is Park, West, N. Y. City. a eyes and ich Pertect pr NOT the “ Hairless" Breed U persona elect nce foe autre, Mex t sell direc? to you at Aas prices ‘Write today for free folder. Vennrte R. Lesters Depts TNE, Besta Parks ¥> A DEAF CHILD can be taught to speak and to understand when spokes to, #4 may enjoy in a smal sct boarding and day school the same fantages that are supplied for hearist we of New York's private schos red home environment and the most skillful instruction Estab! oF just p contrary tineed a tematicall in the last century or so, and, with one or two simple twists of the wrist, rectify th pscachbeic mistakes, save us from the consequences of our folly, and send us forth safe, sound, heart- study of whole and fancy-fr n the high road to Utopia. Magicians who will correct over- i of m capitalizing without injuring the over-capitalizers; give us pure food without injuring the adulterators; stop graft without disturbing the status quo of the grafters; stop child labor without interfering with the profits of child employers, and do all manner of things which in the hands of ordinary mortals would entail much argument, misunderstanding, incrimina- Cie 1 en, nation, talk, et cetera, and so forth, Address, Perplexed, care Uncle Sam, District occ Si ea Dept. 1. RADE ther [comichooks.com