Student (embarrassed):—“I did know it perfectly well, but have forgotten it again.”
Professor:—“What an enormous loss for science! You are the only human being who knew it once, and you had to forget it!”
Coffee Not Education
Porter (to a lot of students who at an early morning hour, noisily demand admission into a closed café):—“Gentlemen, you want to have education?”
Students:—“No, coffee!”
An Apt Retort
Professor (very angry):—“You are the biggest fool here!”
Student (excited):—“Sir! You are forgetting yourself.”
The Other Side
“Is this the famous Kohlenberg?” asked a stranger of a student whom he met while ascending it.