The Erwin Method

What we were supposed to be doing in the final schools was writing dry scholarly answers to academic questions. The question argued in brisk generalities, flavored with sufficient facts and quotations to engage the examiner's interest and disguise my basic ignorance. This is the Erwin method. A friend who was in Oxford when the list went up sent me a postcard. It came on Monday morning while I was working at Tetley's brewery in Leeds,. My father was ill and out of work and he and his mother brought this card to the lodge at the brewery gate, where I was sent for from the cellars. They weren't sure what it first was. Does it mean you've come top, asked