Tbs Partner., 
Washington*Di.Ci.Jane 9*1905. 
Dear Wi.ll:- 
I have been meaning to write you for a long time bat there seems 
to be no opportunity for writing after I get home from the office.The spirit 
moves but the flesh is weak.;You will be interested I am sure to learn about 
the examination which had its funny side .It was the evident,though not the 
announced, intention to made the qualifications for the posit i. n of Auminis- 
istrative Biologist so unusual and the examination so hard that but one man 
in the IL.Sj.could pass; the .joke was that the examination was made so diffir 
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cult that Hart was near being hoist by his own patardLIhe fact is that the 
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oaers req uir e d two whole days for their answer mg,and tne time aliovred wa3 
but 7 1/3 hours.The result was that before I got through I was nearly paral¬ 
yzed.I had no time for lunch and to get through at all had to slight a number] 
of the quest ions.<»Mor over,I could not have finiskd at all had i.t not have 
been for amost extraordinary and fortunate mistake on the part of some G.iv.il-| 
Service, official£A thesis was called for of not less than two thousand words.. 
This was to be written at the ties of the examinationybut some one in the off| 
ice made a mistake and called for it several days before the time set for the 
papersjso I sent it'ia advance and when it was called for on the day I calmly 
told them I had furnished it..We had a fight over the matterbut of course I 
carried the day as I acted under orders which I was able to shat-wiSo I was 
able to complete the papers after a fashion and they marked me 93.,7 on the 
