The Freshman’s Puzzle
I knew a Trinity man of absent habits, who actually, after residing two years in college, having occasion to call upon an old school fellow, a scholar of Bene’t (id est, Corpus Christi College,) before it was rebuilt, was so little acquainted with the localities of the university, that he was obliged to inquire his way, though not two hundred yards from Trinity. Such a man could scarcely be expected to know, what most Cantabs do, that Qui Church, which is situated about four miles from Cambridge, “rears its head” in rural simplicity in the midst of the open fields, seemingly without the “bills of mortality;” for not so much as a cottage keeps it in countenance. This gave occasion for a Cambridge wag to invent the following puzzle:—
“Templum Qui stat in agris,”
Which has caused many a freshman a sleepless night, who, ignorant of the status Qui, has racked his brains to translate the above, minus a Quod pro Qui.