Punch,  11 (1846), 230.

Education at the Woolwich Academy

Anon

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Education, Colleges, Mathematics


    Suggests subjects for lectures at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, an institution notorious for cultivating such disagreeable habits as 'intoxication', 'lying', and 'swearing'. The lecture schedule combines these with such cerebral topics as mathematics, Euclid, and the 'Science of Gunnery'.



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