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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, October 1910

Student Wit

Student Wit.

The audience which had come to hear the oratorical contest for the Plunket medal was evidently determined to have a pleasant time and ready to seize the slightest opportunity for a laugh. The chairman quite inadvertently provided the firs opening by stating that that the Society trained speakers for the bar and the Pulpit. The appetent antithesis caused an amused murmur, which increased at every reference to the "bar," and such references were numerous. R. S. Watson, the first speaker, had unfortunately, to depict his hero at the "Bar," and his attainments thereat. Thereafter, however, that excellent institution was absent, Cardinal Richelieu, John Nicholson, John Bright, and others having apparently had but a nodding acquaintance with it. The students were not content, however, to let the matter drop, and two excellent conundrums were devised. The first was, "What did Abe Lincoln have when he was called to the Bar ?" "Watson's!" the second was, 'Why was William the Silent never called to the bar?" "Because he wouldn't shout!" Even Thomas and the aide-de-camp smiled.