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THE EQUIVALENT.
A Berlin professor, on a visit to England, was being enterta'ned at Cambridge, and took occasion, with very nuestionable taste and in an offensively bumptious way, to pooh-pooh English learning, ending with, "Why, iu English you have not even a word corresponding to the German Gelehrter." "Oh, yes," said the late Henry Sidgwick, who was present, sneaking with his well-known stammer, "we have p-p----p-prig."
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 104, 5 November 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)
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66THE EQUIVALENT. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 104, 5 November 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)
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