Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1918 — Are You a Superior Person? [ARTICLE]

Are You a Superior Person?

A professor of psychology announced to his class somewhat humorously one day that he should propound a problem by means of. which each member could proye to his own satisfaction whether or not he was a superior person. The average person, he explained, never works It out; only the person of superior - practical ability succeeds. Here Is the problem, as propounded by the Youth’s Companion: . • A man has two pails, one of which holds exactly five quarts and the other exactly three quarts. He 18 sent to the river to bring back exactly seven quafts of water, no more, no less. With only, the five-quart pall and the threequart pail how can he measure exactly seven quarts? Can you solve it?