Candidate (translates):—“Read this—and then farewell forever!”
Professor:—“Good, very good! I also will say to you: Farewell forever!”
Saving in Vain
Professor:—“Well, candidate, which seems to you the better, that the present generation should save for the future generation, or that they should leave debts behind?”
Candidate:—“I believe it would be better to leave debts behind.”
Professor:—“Why; what are your reasons?”
Candidate:—“We can’t be expected to save for a generation, of which we do not even know whether it will exist. If the judgment day should come unexpectedly, we would have saved for nothing.”
No Criminal
Professor:—“What is a crime?”
Candidate (stuttering):—“A crime is—is, when some one—does—something!”