Show SOME SLIPS OF SCHOOLBOYS Howlers Which Invariably Raise a Hearty Laugh and Contain Some ome Unconscious Humor I IThe The schoolboy howler is always popular The following fallowing selections from a large number which were sent In for a a prize competition arranged by the University Correspondent are are excellent examples of the mistakes mistakes mis mis- takes which pup pupils s perpetrate Women's suffrage is the state of suffering to which they were b born rn The earth Is an obsolete spheroid Lord Lard Raleigh was the first man to see the Invisible Armada Shakespeare f founded As You Like It on an a book book pre previously written by Sir Oliver Lodge Tennyson wrote In Memorandum 1 ISing ing Edw Edward rd IV had no claim claim by geological right to the English throne George Eliot left a wife and children children chil chil- dren to mourn his g genii The capital of Russia Is St. St Petersburg Petersburg Peters Petersburg burg on an the Duma Th The test act of 1673 was passed to keep Roman Catholics out of ot public houses j jHenry Henry I. I died of eating palfreys Louis was during the French revolution The Rhine is boarded by wooden mountains 1 J Gender shows whether a man Is Is masculine feminine or r neuter James I I. I died from argue An angle is a triangle with only two sides Geometry teaches us how to angels Parallel lI lines es are th the same distance all the w way y and do not not meet unless you ou bend them The whale Is an amphibious animal animal ani ani- mal al because h It lIv lives s on land and dies in the water A parallelogram is a figure made of f four ur parallel straight lines H Horsepower Is the distance one horse hors can carry a pound of water inan in inan inan an hour The rhe magnesium salt in the sea creates creates creates cre cre- ates the effervescence when the tide comes in If Il the air all contains more than per cent of carbolic acid It Is very Injurious Injurious injurious In In- jurious to health Gravitation is that which if there were none we should all fly flyaway away Martin Harvey invented the circulation circulation lation of the blood A deacon deacon is the lowest kind of ol Christian The isles of Greece were ere always quarreling as to which was was the birthplace birthplace birth place of Homer Hamer Chaos has the most right to claim him |