 | CALCUTTA INDIA - 1844 - 650 str.
...The extreme easiness of the examination is the worst feature in it, for one cannot help thinking what a disgrace it would be if one got plucked after all....is nothing to be plucked in Chinese mathematics and Patiigonian philosophy; but fail in vulgar and decimal fractions and Cresars' commentaries, is no joke.... | |
 | 1846 - 628 str.
...The extreme easiness of the examination is the worst feature in it, for one cannot help thinking what a disgrace it would be if one got plucked after all....congregated in the waiting-room, there was a Petersham of no ordinary pretensions to scientific construction — it was as well built an article as you would wish... | |
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... experienced in their lives. A thing of this kind is nothing at all when it is over; but it is the waiting, and the suspense, and the delay, and the nervousness, that render it a wretched business at best. The extreme easiness of the examination is... 