The Staff College
A Bewildered Candidate for the Staff
Genre: | Letter, Spoof |
Subjects: | Education, Mathematics, Palaeontology, Geology, Chemistry, Pneumatics |
The candidate asks Punch for advice on the complicated questions that he has to answer for 'the next Staff College Entrance Examination'. He then presents a sample question which parodies the incomprehensibility of military examination papers and consists of an incongruous mixture of assertions about mathematics, palaeontology, geology, chemistry, and pneumatics. | |
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