If 24 gallons of water flow through a 2 inch pipe each minute how many gallons will flow through a 3 inch pipe under the same conditions?
What is the length of the diameter of a circle whose area equals 1,386 square yards?
Name the materials used in the construction of a street lamp?
Name three essential qualifications requisite for a foreman?”
A street lamp could not be repaired, as a matter of fact, by a person unable to answer these questions! This truth must be apparent to any unbiased mind!
All the other applicants could answer the last two questions only, simply because they were honest; but the metal worker answered them all, and was marked 100, although he had not been at school since he was thirteen years of age, and does not appear to have been much of a student since that time.
The Superintendent’s examination ran as follows, viz.:
“What are the duties of Superintendent of Lamp Repairs?
What experience have you had to qualify you for this position?
How many lamps should a tinner complete in a day?