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Show The lletort to Gulzot. A candidate who displays needless assurance, and who gives himself airs, 1b sure to draw down from his examiners Mine humiliation of his vanity, soino disagreeable dis-agreeable or severe reproof. And if, in his answers, he indulges in smart repartee repar-tee or sharp retort, he is certain to provoke, pro-voke, if not a reprimand, at lcat.t the severity of his judges. Before giving an instance I must first premise that Ouizot, the examiner on tliat occasion, had recently published a "Life of Cromwell." which the publfc received re-ceived with mortifying coldness; also that the Black sea, in Latin "Pontus Euxinusi" is shortened in French into "Pont Euxin," also that "pont" is French for "a bridge." While Guizot, then, was examining at the Sorbonne, after questioning a student stu-dent whose answers seemed to him wido of the mark, he asked, derisively: "You can at least tell me how many arches the Pont Kuxin had?" "Easily enough," the young man pertly pert-ly answered. "Exactly an mnny aH your 'History of Cromwell' has had readers." Such n gross insult, uttered in public, naturally did the candidate moro harm than good. All the Year Round. |