"Schoolboy Howlers"
"SCHOOLBOY HOWLERS" is the subject on which I. D. Campbell will speak from 2YA, and which our artist has so literally illustrated above. Mr. Campbell, who is well-known at Victoria College as a brilliant student and currently as a lecturer, will give two talks on "schoolboy howlers," the first on Tuesday evening, November 4. These are not merely a catalogue of childish trivialities, but are a clever and topical survey, the result of many hours’ investigation of examination papers, a sense of humour, and an analytical mind, According-to Mr. Campbell, the perfect howler contains a real substratum of truth, and then’ it is something close to the epigram. In these talks, there are "howlers’ to please the poultry-farmer, the doctor, the drunkard, the historical scholar, the musician, and just the plain listener
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 123, 31 October 1941, Page 11
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134"Schoolboy Howlers" New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 123, 31 October 1941, Page 11
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