Shortly afterwards Mr. Bridges was called upon, with six other
competitors, to attend in the Combination Room, and the following
papers were submitted to him.


I

1. Derive the word "blacking." What does Paley say on this
subject? Do you, or do you not, approve of Paley's arguments, and
why? Do you think that Paley knew anything at all about it?

2. Who were Day and Martin? Give a short sketch of their lives,
and state their reasons for advertising their blacking on the
Pyramids. Do you approve of the advertising system in general?

3. Do you consider the Japanese the original inventors of blacking?
State the principal ingredients of blacking, and give a chemical
analysis of the following substances: Sulphate of zinc, nitrate of
silver, potassium, copperas and corrosive sublimate.

4. Is blacking an effective remedy against hydrophobia? Against
cholera? Against lock-jaw? And do you consider it as valuable an
instrument as burnt corks in playing tricks upon a drunken man?

This was the Master's paper. The Mathematical Lecturer next gave
him a few questions, of which the most important were:-

II

1. Prove that the shoe may be represented by an equation of the