"Pardon me," said the professor, "he was exposed to it, but he did not take it."
RUPERT--"What did you do with the cuffs I left on the table last night?"
ROLAND--"They were so soiled I sent them to the laundry."
RUPERT--"Ye gods, the entire history of England was on them."
'07--"You are always behind in your studies."
'23--"Well, you see, sir, it gives me a chance to pursue them."
STUDENT (writing home)--"How do you spell 'financially'?"
OTHER--"F-i-n-a-n-c-i-a-l-l-y, and there are two R's in 'embarrassed.'"--_Harper's_.
_See also_ Degrees.
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
SOPH.--"How does it happen you came to Harvard? I thought your father was a Yale man."
FRESH.--"He was. He wanted me to go to Yale; I wanted to go to Princeton. We had an argument and he finally told me to go to H----."--_Yale Record_.
_On The Aristocracy of Harvard_
I come from good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod; Where the Cabots speak only to Lowells, And the Lowells speak only to God!
--_Dr. Samuel G. Bushnell_.
_On the Democracy of Yale_
Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light; Where God speaks to Jones in the very same tones, That he uses with Hadley and Dwight!
--_Dean Jones_.
COMMITTEE
BOBBIE--"What is a committee, pa?"
FATHER--"A committee, my son, is something which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour."
COMMON SENSE
A farmer, just arrived in town, was walking across the street and happened to notice a sign on a hardware store, "Cast Iron Sinks."
He stood for a minute and then said, "Any fool knows that."
Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.--_Lord Thurlow_.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.--_H. W. Shaw_.
COMMUNISM
We were talking to our friend O'Doul about politics, and he was calm enough until somebody announced himself "a violent radical."
"I can stand for Socialism--a little of it, anyway," said O'Doul fiercely; "but it's this Communism that makes me mad; I'm not going to stand for any form of government under which a man can come up to me and say, 'O'Doul, there are too many men just like you in New York.
You go out and live in Columbus.'"
A--"Your communism is stupid. If everything were divided today, in a very short time your portion would be gone. What then?"
B--"Divide again!"
COMMUTERS
Stationed at the Mont Sec observation post, near St. Mihiel, a French soldier was showing the scenery to a doughboy.
"I have been in this section ever since the beginning of the war," he said. "Back there is Commercy, where my home is."
"I suppose you get home once in a while?" said the doughboy.