Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Crushing. [ARTICLE]

Crushing.

The comment made on Lord Beaconsfield upon the occasion of his maiden speech in the House of Commons, that he “went up like a rocket and came down like a stick,” was not more scathing than one recently applied to a rather conceited young I Men man, reported in thrf Westminster Gazette: In a certain Irish college the student at his oral examinations has 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 little, plied him with a series of difficult interrogations. Hardly a single correct answer was given, and when his time had expired the student descended and returned to h-is place greatly crestfallen and humiliated. “Now,” said the victorious examiner when he caught the eye of his victim again, “if you had gone up as you came down, you would have come down as you went up!” - »