20 JULY 1889, Page 15

STUDENTS' BLUNDERS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Of students' blunders, few surely can equal in ingenuity• the following answer to a question in a French examination paper :—Q. " Give the gender of " (among other compounds) "tete-a-tete, with comments." A. " Tete-et-tete is of the common gender, because it usually takes place between a man and a woman."—I am, Sir, &c., Chelmsford, July 13th. R. E. BARTLETT.