STUDENT LAPSES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4845, 14 May 1936, Page 8

STUDENT LAPSES

\ BATCH OF HOWLERS The University Correspondent, the organ of the University Correspondence College of Cambridge, - the instituion which has enabled so many thousands of men and women to gain university degrees and honours without residence at a university, has again issued its annual list of howlers. Here are some of them: — A National Government is one that has no definite opinion at all, for it is made up of all sorts of political men and agitators who make friends and do nothing important and we get peace. Q: What is the difference between mass and weight? A: Mass is the thing. Weight is the same thing, but not exactly quite the same thing. Thev really mean the same thing. The Privy Council is the gathering of all the honourable men in the Empire, and is of no importance. Guerilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. A parable is a short story describing something you have been told but did not understand. Bankers' discount is the part of your money in the bank that the banker does not count. Capital punishment should be abolished in schools, as many teachers are inclined to make too much use of it. Bill of Rights: Parliament also made sure that they should be supreme over the Crown by limiting the King's abilities. A rear-admiral is the lowest type of admiral. Q: Give a noun from the word "histor." A :"Hysterics." Explain the phrase: "The hollowsounding bittern." ("Deserted Village"). A: The bird hadn't anything to eat for days. In the early days of Scottish history sanitation was so bad that pigs walked about the streets just as people do nowadays.