Punch,  46 (1864), 3.

University Intelligence

Anon

Genre:

Reminiscences, Drollery

Subjects:

Universities, Education, Reading, Mathematics

People mentioned:

Euclid


    Written from the perspective of an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, who describes how some of his friends have prepared for their degree examinations, and notes that one friend got his tailor to help him prepare by sewing cards into the lining of his coat on which were condensed his 'useful knowledge'. Adds that this strategy forced his friend to develop a procedure for remembering the location of each card.



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