Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1914 — A Princeton Student’s Wit. [ARTICLE]

A Princeton Student’s Wit.

An ingenious and amusing answer was recently given by a student in the natural philosophy class at Princeton University. An instructor gave the question: “Define transparent, translucent, and opaque.” “1 cannot, professor,” answered the student, “precisely define these terms, but I can indicate their meaning in this way: the windows-of this room were once transparent, they are now translucent, and if not cleaned very soon, they will be opaque.”