AN UNSYMPATHETIC STUDENT
Dr. Blank (says an exchange), about twenty years a professor in the University of Virginia, was on the eve of a trip to Europe, to be absent two years. In pathetic and rather harrowing tones he made his farewell address to his class: ' Yes, lam about to part from you. This is more than distressing to me. Would that there was a window in my breast, my dear boys, that you might see the innermost recesses of my heart.' A stripling in the rear, seized with a happy thought, shouted: 'Professor, would a pain in the stomach do?'
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New Zealand Tablet, 8 July 1909, Page 36
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101AN UNSYMPATHETIC STUDENT New Zealand Tablet, 8 July 1909, Page 36
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