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1859, John D Pope, Judge Superior
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1860, William Lee.
1861, Benjamin Mell.
1862, W. H. Brooka.
1863, ’64 and ’6s—suspended.
1866, F A Lipscomb, Ass’t Prof. An.
Lang Univ’y of Geo.; Carlton
Hillyer, Samuel Lumpkin.
1867, Samuel Spencer and William
Allen Fort.
1868, George Bancroft, Prof Math.
Marion College, Ala.; B P. Hollis.
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and M Guyton.
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A GRADUATE’S NOTES.
BY BE.
English and American 11 Busts’ ’ in
Examinations.
The Ball Mall Gazette recently
called attention to some very ludi
crous blunders made at a Cambridge
tnid dle-class examination in the an
swers to a set of questions on English
History. Equally absurd errors
might be adduced from the replies of
university under-graduates in their
various college examinations. Most
people have an idea of Italy being
represented by chartographers in the
form of a boot; yet I remember a
university-man who mapped it out as
a square. Another beiug required to
draw a map of Judea, put a big dot
for Jerusalem, and a smaller one
marked, “ Here the man fell among
thieves/’ and was satisfied with this
exposition. “ An island intheiEgean
Sea,” is a stock answer to any ques
tion as to the situation of a place not
known. 0f course, in construing
Latin, greater “shots” are made;
and I remember an unfortunate man
asserting that clam was an adjective,
accusative case, feminine; and that
etsi was a verb, preter-perfect tense
from etio. Two instances are given
by Mr. Bristed in his Five Years in
an English University, where “ Cse
sar captivos sub corona vendidit” was
translated “ Ctesar sold the captives
for less than five shillings;” and
where “ Est enim finitimus oratori
poeta; numeris adstrictior paulio
verborum autem licentia liberior,”
was translated, “ For a poet lived
next door to the orator, too licentious
in his language, but more circum
spect than numbers.” The jocosely
clever answers are, however, some-'
what hazardous ; as the Cambridge
man found when he was asked by
Mr. Payne, his examiner, to define
happiness, and replied, “An exemp
tion from Payne.” And I know
another man who catno to trouble by
answering the question “ What did
St. Paul do at Troas and Rhegium ?”
“Ho left his cloak at Troas and
fetched a compass to lihegium.” The
THE GEORGIA COLLEGIAN.
answers to questions in Divinity pas
pers would cover a wide field of ab
surdity ; but so many of them (un
consciously) border on the profane,
that they can only be briefly referred
to here. All that one man can say
of David was, that he was “ a person
very fond of music;” while another
could toll nothing more of the most
remarkable circumstance in the office
of the High Priest, than that “ho
only washed his face once a year.”—
Another man thought that St. Paul
was “ a teacher, brought up at the
foot of Gamaliel, a great mountain in
Cilicia;” while another gave as the
substance of his sermon at Athens,
that “ he cried out for the Bpaeo of
two hours ‘ Great is Diana of the
Ephesians.’ ” There are many ro
corded answers to the question as to
the connection between the Old and
Now Testaments: one was, “Pri
deaux’s connection ;” another was,
“ When Peter cut off Malachi’s ear.”
The following is probably an inge
nious composition. Question. —What
animal in Scripture is recorded to
have spoken ? Answer. —The whale.
Q. To whom did the whale speak ?
A. To Moses in the bulrushes? Q.
What did the whale say ? A Thou
art the man. Q What did Moses
reply? A. Almost thou persuadest
me to be a Christian. Q. What was
the effect on the whale? A. He
rushed violently down a steep place
into the sea and perished in the wa
ters. Here is a verse in which two
stupid answers are embalmed:
A small snob of Baliol had an idea
That Joseph was loved by his Arimathea :
And, coining a word in the iashion of Grote,
Said that Herod held office as Scholekobrote.
This last word was his idea of skole
brotos, “ eaten of worms.”
But we are not behind English stu
dents in blunders. A senior Parson
of 1869. reasoned that anangke, Greek
for necessity , was feminine, because
necessity was the mother of invention.
In answer to the question, decline
opus, domus, &c., our friend C. said,
“ Professor, I take your good advice,
I decline those words; I decline to
have anythihg to do with them.”—
Another, being in doubt as to which
of seven Astronomy diagrams was
asked for in a question, drew them
all, and in note said, “just cast your
astronomical eye over these figures
Professor, and you will immediately
detect the correct one. Jones, when
asked into what English words the
Greek purg, entered replied that it
doubtless entered into purgatory and
he hoped it would stay there forever.
—A Sophmore in one of our Female
Colleges was proceeding finely to
write out, in an examination, a de
monstration in Geometry. But when
she reached the hard part, she forgot
one step in the proof, scribbled down
in large letters, “O Lord!” and went
on to the next question.—A tyro in
Modern Languages being requested
to decline il bacio (a kiss) said he
would do no such a thing; he was
always fond of any favor that he had
from a lady’s own mouth.—A “ fresh
water sailor ” in Analytical Geometry
refused to answer a question relative
to Hyperbolas on the ground that
Rhetoric declared these Hyperboles
to be exaggerations and
tions wore lies, and he would have
nothing to do with them.—The best
derivation ever given is that of Res
taurant,res, andtaurus, a bully thing.
—A new student read out a sentence
in Latin Prose in which he by mis
take used the pronoun quid. “Throw
out your quid ” said the Professor,
and the obsequions prosist immedis
ately emptied his u chaw” of tobacco
on the floor.
Suitable Names,
Some men are vory appropriately
named. For instance, Stickwell, the
manufacturer of Mucilage. Or, for
instance, the bankrupt merchant,
Glass ; how natural that he should
break. —These verses are by Bishop
John Still, and excently suit his
name.
I can not eat but little meat,
My stomach is not good,
But sure I think that I can drink
With bitn that wears a hood.
Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both toot and hand go cold,
But, belly, God send the good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.
The Revival.
As some are opposed to the revival
in progress at the Methodist Church,
on theground of objecting to religious
excitement, wo quote a passage from
a sermon by Rev. F. W. Robertson,
an Episcopal minister. His useful
ness is evident from the fact that on
one occasion he confirmed six hun
dred converts; his popularity, from
the fact that more volumes of his
sermons have been sold than of any
other preacher during the century.—
But to the passage : “ A great part
of the value of the rite of confirma
tion consists in its being a season of
excitement. The value of excitement
is that it breaks up the old mechani
cal life which has become routine
It stirs the stagnancy of life, and
causes the stream of existence to
flow more fresh and clear.”
...An Indian chief tnat was taken
to church in Philadelphia, found his
native veneration for the Deity dis
turbed by the customary repetitions
of the Episcopal service, and ex
claimed, “These people tease the’
Great Spirit too much.”
...To paint the character of a wo
man, you must use the feather of a
butterfly’s wing.— Diderot.
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