UNDERGRADUATES’ IGNORANCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1151, 19 September 1882, Page 4

UNDERGRADUATES’ IGNORANCE.

Judicious selections from Little Go Papers are a favorite source of laughter. Mr Dou mentions the unpublished addition to the parable of the Good Samaritan. After repeating the Samaritan’s saying to the innkeeper, “ When I come again I will repay thee ” the unlucky examinee added, “ This he said, knowing that he should see his face no more.” Our author gives us a candidate for his degree, stating that the substance of St. Paul’s sermon at Athens to be crying out for the space of two hours, “ Great is Diana of the Ephesians,” and another, when called upon to trace a connection between the Old and New Testaments, referred to the circumstance that Peter with his sword cut off the ear of the prophet Malachi. But of those which we heard tell ourselves one of the neatest for its conception in this plain style of unhesitating faith is the account of the ascent of Elijah into Heaven : —“ And there came two she bears out of the wood and said unto Elijah, Go up thou bald head, and he went up.” The fullest development of the combination of a good memory with an inferior sense ef the traditional order is the account of the death of Jezebel. The examinee, feeling sure of his ground, prefaced the account with this statement : —“ It is most important to preserve the exact words of the sacred narrative,” and proceeded : —“ And as he passed through the gate of the city, there looked out unto him two persons appointed for that purpose. And he said unto them, " Throw her down.’ So they threw her down And he said, “Do it a second time." And thev did it a second time. And he said, “Doit a third time." They did it a third time : and they did it unto seven times: yea, even unto seventy times seven. Last all of the women died also. And they took up the broken fragments that remained levpp basketsful.