SOME EXAMINATION "GEMS."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10032, 5 July 1910, Page 4

SOME EXAMINATION "GEMS."

In the course of her annual report the principal of the Church of England Grammar School for Girls, in Sydney, referred to the great influx of new scholars, and expressed the opinion that this large amount. of new blood, especially in the' lower forms, was mainly responsible 1 for the "gems" which had adorned some of the examination paper s.. A I few of the "'gems" are reproduced —"Hezekiah was the wife of Sennacherib." "There are three tropics—Cancer, Capricorn, and Unicorn." "Wychff was born in Ne*> York in 1423." "If*lsaiah's cousin, KingUzziah, had not died, he might have been something greater than a prophet." "IchDien' means anything from 'Praise God' to 'Goodbye.' " "A whited. sepulchre is a' clean tombstone.*' "A diieinrtfalas very sharp horns" "Luceat lux Vectra" means "faithfulness, purity,' and truth." Lady Chelmsford, who referred to the "geme," said she had a brother who was doing well ihhis own particular walk in Me, but who. when asked in his early days to translate "esprit rie corps," gave it a,s "presence of mind." Her Excellency encouraged the girls by saying that, although they might make mistakes, at the beginning, they could do well afterwards.