SCHOOLBOY "HOWLERS."

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17392, 1 March 1922, Page 5

SCHOOLBOY "HOWLERS."

An admirable crop of schoolboy "howlers" has been reaped in a competition promoted by. the "University Correspondent." . Political penetration may be regarded by some people as lying behind the description of Mr Lloyd George. "Lloyd George," says the schoolboy, "is the Prime Mixture of England." Other definitions of constitutional or political subjects are:— ... "The Minister of War is a clergyman who breaches to the soldiers." "The three estates of the realm are Buckingham Palace, Windsor, and Balmoral." "The strength of the British Constitution lies in the fact that the Lords and Commons each give each other mutual cheek (? check)." "The guilds were the ancestors of trade unions, but now only old women ,go there to sew." ' New light is shed on history and literature in the following:— "Martin Luther did not die a natural death, but was excommunicated by a bull"; "Richard 11. is said to hare been murdered by some historians"; "Philippa was a brave queen; she married Edward I."; "Julius Caesar was renowned for his strength. He threw a bridge across the Ehine"; "Shakespeare wrote tragedies, comedies, and errors" ; "Galileo" discovered - a star, and was put in prison until he agreed not to believe in the stars." There is an excellent new "portmanteau 1 ' word in the information that "people go to Africa to hunt rhinostriches," and the following is the complicated definition given to a skeleton: "A skeleton is a man with his inside out and his outside off."