Harvard Association of Western New York.

We have clipped the following as the best questions on an imaginary examination paper under which form the Harvard Club of Buffalo issued the menu of its dinner.

I.GREEN TURTLE SOUP.* * * * * * *

(c) State the distinction drawn by Hartmann in his Philosophic des Unbewussten between hunger on the one hand, and the tooth-ache or grief at the loss of a friend on the other.

II.TURBOT.(a) Prove by the Darwinian theory of development that fish must always come before meat.

(b)To be in strict accordance with this theory should a dinner culminate with chimpanzee for dessert, or is the descent of men ordinarily more than sufficiently illustrated at the end of a club dinner?

III.[Take either A or B, but not both.]

A. ROAST PIG.(a) Explain the use of Onomatopoeia in the formation of the principal parts of pigo, pigere, squeali, gruntum.

(b) Show in what way Bo-bo of China, son of Ho-ti, forms a connecting link between Roast Pig and Lamb. Note the peculiar fact that Bo-bo, although certainly not a Jew, was a Giaour. How is this possible; or is it a Buffalo bull?

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B. ROAST TURKEY.(d) Repeat rapidly several times (not while eating), Dido dina du dos d'un dindon dodu.

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[N. B. This course is intentionally made rather tough in order to discourage cramming at the outset and promote, thorough, steady work.]

(f) Comment on the fact that a turkey is a native of America, and was so named because its wattle was of the color so long known as Turkey red. What does this show as to the age of turkeys? What is the age of this turkey?

IV.ROMAN PUNCH.* * * * * * *

(b) Name in order of time the successive conquests of the Romans. Is Roman Punch one of the Institutes of Justinian?

(c) Was it a little Roman punch that killed Caesar?

CIGARETTES.* * * * * * *

(c) Explain Mill's distinction between productive and unproductive consumption. Does any illustration occur to you of the latter?

V.Discuss systematically one of the following subjects:

A. PRAIRIE CHICKEN. B. MALLARD DUCK.

(a) Scan both of the above, marking the quantity, and number of feet. Decline and parse one.

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VI.SALAD. CRACKERS AND CHEESE.(b) Criticise Bouvier's definition of choses in action. How should amend it so as to include Stilton and Limburger cheese?

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VII.TUTTI FRUTTI.(a) What are the arguments against the possibility of general over-production or excess of supply? Do you believe in them?

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(c) Define and illustrate Inertia.

VIII.FRUIT. COFFEE.

[No dates are necessary.]

(a) Explain the term "chestnut." How did it acquire its present meaning?

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IX.NATURAL GAS.* * * * * * *

(b) What rhetorical ends are sometimes sought by the absence of perspicuity? Illustrate. What is pointed out by Kant as the paralogism of Rational Psychology? Would your ideas on this point have been clearer at the beginning of the paper.