THE COTTONIAN
Hall favourites like " Miner's Dream of Home " and " Upidee " were rendered. A little " barracking " would have improved them considerably. Mention must be made of Reeve's remarkably good accompanying. He has made great strides in this very difficult art, and now everything comes alike to him. He does accompany songs and instruments with an air of distinction which the writer cannot remember hearing in any other boy.
EX ORE INFANTIUM
(SELECTED FROM TERMINAL EXAMINATIONS)
Socrates was not an ordinary teacher who tells you everything.
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Two walls were built to the new port of Athens and one more to the old one, Pyrrhea.
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Achilles' mother was a god. Paris hit him in the heel, and he died a true heroine of Greece.
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Cabot founded Newfoundland, Columba founded North of South America, and Verbo de Garbo founded the way to India via the Cape of Good Hope.
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John Bosco discovered Newfoundland.
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Sic itur ad astra : as it is in heaven.
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Invitat somnos crepitantibus unda lapillis : he invited sleep to creep under the stones.
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je serai tres heureux de t'emmener : I would have three hours of fun with you.
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Quoiqu'il ne manque pas de legerete : Although he does not break the laws... .
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Se; sens sont extremement tins : lie has the largest of fins.
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Le vieux pecheur aimait bieu les fruits, surtout les fraises : The old sinner liked the fruits, sorting out the fresh ones.
Je ne serai pas etonne s'il v avait aussi quelques botes sauvages a voir : I should not be happy unless you had some good sauseges (sic).
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11 se retina en grande hate : He dressed himself in a top hat.
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" If we want to go to some place quickly, we just get into a car, press a few knobs and levers and in a few minutes we arrive at our destiny." (From Essay on Travel).
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Saevitque animis ignobile vulgus : He saved their minds from ignoble vulgarity.
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Nec Lydius aurifer amnis : Nor the Lydian stream, the ear-carrier.
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Patres conscripti : (r) So the Fathers wrote. (2) The fathers have been called up. (3) His parents having been taken into consideration.
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Q. Give examples of the correct use of the words (1) sere, (2) illicit, (3) prodigious.
R. (r) NN 'hen the old policeman bent down, a large sere appeared in his suit. (2) He explained in illicit detail the scene of the crime. (3) Shirley Temple was a very prodigious character.
Q. Correct : " Between you and I...."
R. " Between I and you.
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The Witches in Macbeth go about making themselves a newsense and doing grewsum things.
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Kamel Pasha used Gorilla tactics with great effect against the Greeks in Asia Minor.
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Lady Macbeth had an unconquerable nerve. But same as all women, she had her nature.
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Elles se sont assises sur un banc : There are some asses on the bank.
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God chose Moses because he was a proffit.
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Samson met a lion which he tore into.