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From the Annex.

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The CRIMSON'S Annex correspondent sends the following joke, which will have to be referred to the next Mathematical Seminar for complete solution. The man who successfully solves it will deserve the Toppan, Sargent and Bowdoin prizes for the next five years. The joke is printed below in full.

"On a conspicious part of the walls of the Freshman Physics room at the Annex appeared a short time ago the following inscription: "What is Physics? Ans. - The inness of the why, or x plus y equals z. Each young woman passing to her accustomed seat seemed to drink in considerable consolation from the words which met her shy and innocent glance. But it was not till the professor in the middle of a profound and lengthy explanation caught sight of and succeeded in translating it that much difficulty was experienced in keeping up an equilibrium."

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