Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — Crushing. [ARTICLE]

Crushing.

The comment made on Lord Beaconsfleld upon the occasion of his maiden speech in the House of Commons, that he “went yp like a rocket and came down like a stick,” was not more scathing than one recently applied to a rather conceited young Insnman, reported 1 in the Westminster Gazette: In a certain Irish college the student at his oral examinations lwis to give his answers from a pulpit, before the board of examiners. Once a student, who had no mean opinion of his attainments, ascended the pulpit with a self-satisfied and hopeful air. The examiner, determined to “lower” him a Jlttle, plied him with a series of difficult interrogations. Hardly a single correct answer was given, and when his time had expired the studeut descended nnd returned to Iris place greatly crestfallen and humiliated. “Now,” said the victorious examiner when he caught the eye of his victim again, "if you had gone up ns you came, down, you would have come down as you went up!”