HERE ARE SOME REAL HOWLERS
From the “University Correspondj cnt.” the organ of the University Correspondence College of Cambridge:— “Geometry. One proposition is the converse of another when it contradicts what the other says. “Gender shows whether a man is masculine, feminine or neuter. That is, if we know the gender wo know what sort we are. “The weight of a body is the pull of gratitude on it towards the earth. “Lister discovered antiseptic treatment, whereby a bone can be cut ip two without any after-effect on * the ' owner. i “A ship going east will get r day I ahead of the sun, because by the time it gets to a certain line the crew will see two sunsets where they should see only one. “An editor is somebody who does not do anything himself, and when somebody else does, goes and tells other people all about it.”
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Northern Advocate, 7 January 1938, Page 4
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