Wednesday, March 26, 2025
A Joker
Averil Cameron, Transitions: A Historian's Memoir (Turnhout: Brepols, 2024), p. 56 (on C.E. Stevens):
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He loved to sprinkle howlers into his tutorial teaching (for instance the false claim that Julius Caesar had gone to Ireland) and unsuspecting pupils would repeat them in examination papers unaware that the examiners already knew them well. He also kept a barrel of beer in his rooms at Magdalen. After Schools (the final examination in Greats) he would entertain his finalists and throw half crowns to whoever had included one of his howlers in their Roman history paper.Hat tip: Eric Thomson.
