SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.

TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.