We have clipped the following as the best questions on an imaginary examination paper under which form the Harvard Club of Buffalo issued the menu of its dinner.
I.GREEN TURTLE SOUP.* * * * * * *
(c) State the distinction drawn by Hartmann in his Philosophic des Unbewussten between hunger on the one hand, and the tooth-ache or grief at the loss of a friend on the other.
II.TURBOT.(a) Prove by the Darwinian theory of development that fish must always come before meat.
(b)To be in strict accordance with this theory should a dinner culminate with chimpanzee for dessert, or is the descent of men ordinarily more than sufficiently illustrated at the end of a club dinner?
III.[Take either A or B, but not both.]
A. ROAST PIG.(a) Explain the use of Onomatopoeia in the formation of the principal parts of pigo, pigere, squeali, gruntum.
(b) Show in what way Bo-bo of China, son of Ho-ti, forms a connecting link between Roast Pig and Lamb. Note the peculiar fact that Bo-bo, although certainly not a Jew, was a Giaour. How is this possible; or is it a Buffalo bull?
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B. ROAST TURKEY.(d) Repeat rapidly several times (not while eating), Dido dina du dos d'un dindon dodu.
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