About noted personages and historic events and places the answers are equally startling. "Molière was a French essayist and critic" (also "a French writer of the nineteenth century,") Cecil Rhodes, "the founder of Bryn Mawr College"; "Seth Low—England, eighteenth century;" Attila "a woman mentioned in the Bible for her great cruelty to her child;" Warren Hastings "was a German soldier" (also "was a discoverer; died about 1870"); "Nero was a Roman emperor B. C. 450." Perhaps the most unique guess in this line was "Richard Wagner invented the Wagner cars;" Abbotsford is "the title of a book by Sir Walter Scott;" "Vassar College is a dream, high-up and unattainable;" "Tammany Hall is a political meeting place in London;" "the Parthenon, an art gallery in Athens."
Pedagogy seemed one of the most perplexing of words. It was defined by one as "the science of religion," by another as "learned pomposity;" but the most remarkable of all was "pedagogy is the study of feet."
Song of Some Library School Scholars.
Three little maids from school are we,
Filled to the brim with economy—
Not of the house but library,
Learnt in the Library School.
1st Maid—I range my books from number one.
2nd Maid—Alphabetically I've begun.
3rd Maid—In regular classes mine do run.
All—Three maids from the Library School.
All—Three little maidens all unwary,
Each in charge of a library,
Each with a system quite contrary
To every other school.
Our catalogues, we quite agree,
From faults and errors must be free,
If only we our way can see
To find the proper rule.
Boy's remark on returning a certain juvenile book to the library: "I don't want any more of them books. The girls is all too holy."