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Harvard Association of Western New York.

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.

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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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