Superfluous Talent
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary |
Subjects: | Mathematics, Education, Government |
Challenges the statement in a parliamentary blue book on Civil Service examinations that letter-carriers need to distinguish themselves in knowledge of logarithms. Insists that a letter-carrier should be one who 'carries his letters in a bag', not one 'who can carry letters in his head'. |
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