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J GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENl To be traittflattJl into Latin While the lionest knight was thus bewildering himself in good starts looked attentively upon him which made him thought collect his mind little What aim at says he is to represent that am of opinion to polish our understandings and neglect our manners is of all things the most inexcusable Reason should govern passion but instead of that you see it is often subservient to it and as unaccountable as one would think it wise man is not always good man This degeneracy is not only the guilt of particular persons but also at some times of whole people and perhaps it may appeal upon examination that the most polite ages are the least virtuous This may be attri- buted to the folly of admitting wit and learning as merit in them- selves without considering ths application of them Ry this means it becomes rule not 80 much to regard what we do as how we do it But this false beauty will not pass upon men of honest minds and true taste Sir Richard Black mure says with as much good sense as virtue י It is mighty dishonour and shame to employ excellent faculties and abundance of wit to humour and please men in their vices and follies '" SENIOR MATHEMATICAL SCHOLARSHIP -eurtrtl Euclid Rook xi prop The difference between the second and fourth powers of prime number is divisible by 12 The sum of the squares of the diagonals of parallelo- pipedon the sum of the squares of the 12 edges In the expansion of if be integral every Coefficient is integral