Love and Latin

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 129, 22 August 1927, Page 3

Love and Latin

A Tale of Paris He was a medical practitioner in Paris. She was a modest and prettynurse. They became engaged, but the young man* 0 parents thought that the girl of h,« had not the neces..arv J. : a ; pcsitio- , and they refused Vhei* t«» the marriage. To- of committing suicide, as .:,.ny do, the ' * & u«w«.cu decided to work in order to ; *iak down the resistance of her love*'& parents. She decided to eni"* a school of chemistry, but in ordev o do so she had obtain her B.A. egree. She win: ; : very hard at Lati* and Greek with .~t sweetheart, hoping o pass her examination this yea;, aim st an impossible thing to do. So the ,'ocr girl coui<i • ! ’nk of no •r»r way out -,Z her d - allies than t. tV:e Secretary f the Paris Ui. ..offer good bribe to one oi .. obtain in advance the Lath* Greek papers which were to be given to the candidates. A trap was laid for the girl. It was her lover who went to receive the documents, and both were eventually prosecuted. The court declared itself incompetent in the matter of fraud in an examination. But the severe council of the university took action on its own and decided to exclude the medical student for two years, while his discomfited fiancee was excluded from the B.A. examination. The desperate fiancee appealed to the Superior Council of Public Instruction, which, after a touching appeal for mercy, decided to reduce the young woman’s punishment to two years’ exclusion. It is understood that the young man s parents have decided to withdraw their ban on the marriage, so that the poor girl will be able to prepare for her B.A. in peace.