I'm Cambridge. That's why I'm so loth to meet
Your dark blue eyes.
Note.—"Dark blue." In view of the coming Boat Race this may be taken as a prophecy, or tip.
APPLIED SCIENCE.
Sir,—The following may be of service to your non-mathematical readers:—
Q. "The hands of a clock are between 2 and 3; and in ten minutes' time the minute hand will be as much in front of the hour hand as it is now behind it. What is the time?"
A. "Ask Policeman X."
The crass mediævalism of the Oxbridge don, I regret to say, failed to see this solution, and I am again coaching with old Drummer.—Yours theoretically and problematically,
Practical Y. Z.