Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1918 — Unfortunate Expression. [ARTICLE]

Unfortunate Expression.

Although our new war secretary, Lord Milner, cannot exactly be said to shine as a humorist, he can enjoy a good story against himself, as witthe following, which he is fond of relating. Some years ago, fresh from his South African triumphs, he addressed an qudience of undergraduates at his old university. “We must remember not merelyl the beauty of the Individual colleges, but the beauty of Oxford as a whole. And what a whole IK Is.” T'~" "Hear, hear ! u yelled the varsity men. “Yes, what, a hole!” they groaned. “What a beastly hole!” Then.it dawned upon Lord Milner that this was a sentiment he would rather have expressed differently/ Pearson’s Weekly.