I got the results of English to-day. I got first by 229 out of 300. The next fellow, MacSwiney, got 156. We had an exam in arithmetic from 1-3, and even though my finger was bandaged and bleeding from a smack of a hurley I got 2 mins. before the exam, I didn’t do too badly. I did 5 out of 7 sums. Dr. Scannell to-day told us stories in the history class about his experiences as a chaplain in Belgium during the war, and how insolent and mean the town-mayors, or those who looked after the nutrition of the soldiers as they passed through the towns, were. He also told us how at Napoleon’s meeting with the Pope before his coronation, when the Emperor was boasting of the great empire he would form with the Pope as spiritual ruler, the poor old Pope nodded his head and said ‘Comediante’, and when Napoleon then raged about what he would inflict on the Pope, the latter simply said ‘Tragediante’.
