Our British cousins seem to think we have peculiar ways of getting our D.D.'s over here. A London newspaper relates how the congregation of a Southern church, being desirous of honoring their pastor, wrote to the dean of a certain faculty: "We want to get our beloved pastor a D.D. We enclose all the money we can raise at present. Be good enough to send one D. now. We hope to raise sufficient for the other D. by and by."
DEMAGOG
"Father," said the small boy, "what is a demagog?"
"A demagog, my son, is a man who can rock the boat himself and persuade everybody that there's a terrible storm at sea."
DEMOCRACY
ADKINS—"Well, the world is at last safe for democracy."
WATKINS—"Just what is democracy, anyway?"