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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an experi but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.s
12
16
22
126
27
63
26
39
145
46
47
52
5b 57
HORIZONTAL
1-A shrub of Scotland
5- wator-bird
-Small deer of Europa (pl.) 10-Abound
11-An Island group,
8. W. Pacifle 13-Former president of!
the United States 18-Proceeding from 17-One who tells a bett 20-A splice of corn 21-A short slees 23-Have (Scot) 24-Royal Navy (abbr) 25-One and no more 20-A famous British feld-marshal
28-A Southern
constellation
30-To In
31-A Hebraw month 32-Mother
33-The middle name of
Emerson, the essayist
34-A degree (abbr)
38-An object of
heathen worship
38-A Turkish
commander
40-Dominion (abbr)
113
$4
124
28 129
15
20
25
143
49
50
58 159
bo
167
164
GMC INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE,
: HORIZONTAL (Cont) VERTICAL (Cont.) 41-Used in tennie (pt.)13-Centiliter (abbr.) 44-One of the grains
(pl.)
46-Arabla (abbr)} 48-Wat slippery darth 49-To pleca out 61-Prefix Throo 12-Capital of Babe
Islands 54-Exlat 65-A famous hero of
antiquity
68-A town in B. W.
Montana 61-Weird (Scot.) 62-A bird 83-Ascended 64–Opposite of "zenith"
VERTICAL
14-Over (poet.) 16-A strong wind 18-A sout 19-Deadly
22-A piece of poetry |25-Dars collectively 127-Weaves together
29-Egyptian aun-god 31-A noted settlement
worker 33-Becoming a woman 55-To abate 37-To perform 88-A noted
ornithologist 39-Female horse 42-in the capacity of
(Latin)
48-A game of cards 44-Not the same
1-A grade of green tea 45-Wearies
2-Part of body
3-In excessive
quantity
4-Heath
B-To jelly 6-A Brazilian coln 7-A acaport, N. W.
Prussia B-Each one 10-A hurricane 12-Dlatant
(47-A cos (Scot.)
50-A Mohammedan
prince 63-Sabbath-school
(abbr)
56-A letter of the atphabet
57-A vase 59-Grace (Lat'n} 60-To spread for
drying
(The solution of the above cross-word
pearle will
appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
TOTAL ECLIPSE
PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES
DEVELOPED
SATISFACTORY RESULTS
Alor Star, May 10. Dr. Jackson has got excellent re- sults with two coronographs and the 45-foot telescopic camera show- ing the outer and inner corona and a magnificent prominence.
Only one plate of the Einstein camera has been developed and three more to develop but indica- tions are, the results are satisfac- tory and sufficient to make the necessary calculations.
Dr. Carroll obtained some results with the interferometer but not auf- ficient to make deductions.
The interferometer apparatus was used only as experiment. It had never before been tried but the
results are sufficient to justify building a suitable instru ment for the next oclipse.
Dr. Carroll expressed satisfac- tion that the results proved the theory that the apparatus was cor- rect.
Mr. Arnold (American Expedi- tion) obtained excellent results with his photometer in measuring total visible luminosity values which are specially required for Mount Wilson.
Mr. Johnstone (American Ex- pedition) had good observations of total luminosity in his photometer. The Japanese obtained splendid plates of the corona showing the
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prominence in all cameras and also Professor Regaud, the Parisien a good negative of continuous scientist, who has aroused great interest in medical circles with his re- spectrum.
ports on the use of fadium in his The American party have not yet treatments of cancer. From 1922 to developed their plates of the corona. 1928, he handled 344 cases and in 82 The British have still many ex- of them, which affected the tongue, be posures to develop: "Singapore per cent of the cases of lip cancer were accomplished a complete care, whilst 90 Free Press."
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LANGUAGE TUITION the young what they want to know
and you will alter the whole mental ity of youth towards education.
CRITICISM OF PRESENT METHODS
REVISION URGED
Writing in the "Sanday Times" Sir Rennell Rodd, M.P., says:-
The Prince of Wales has on var lous public occasione crystallized in a few trenchant sentences valuable impressions derived from wide rang ing observations during his travels in other countries. The recent pro- nouncement of his Royal Highness regarding atavistic methods of salesmanship and an inability, which seems rather the rule than the ex-
sense
ception of our agents to approach foreign potential buyers in any language but English, coming from such a source, has not failed to at- Our re- tract general attention. presentatives abroad have for many years reported in a similar to the departments at home, and such institutions as the Modern Languages Association and the Par- ents' Association are continually in- sisting on the urgency of & more systematic and efficient teaching of modern languages.
Self-Complacent Apathy
Their voices, however, do not carry far enough and they cry not so much in the wilderness as in a jungle of self-complacent apathy.
It is gratifying to learn that the President of the Board of Education has welcomed the suggestion that the teaching of modern languagea should be investigated. But if any thing is really to be accomplished we must begin at the top and not only half-way-up the social scale, Some drastic expression of public opinion alone can influence the con- ! servative hierarchies which preside over unassisted education.
I am myself a very strong bellever in a classical education at the pro- per age, and I have no doubt that, if the pupil has an efficient know- ledge of a modern language of the Latin family, he would, on reaching the Public School stage, learn Latin if it were intelligently taught, as the source of the language he knows how to use plastically, much more rapidly than he will ever do when it is reluctantly hammered into him by disciplinary insistence before his mind is ripe to assimilate such unfamiliar matter.
The converse of this process in, I know, generally maintained by the schoolmaster, and we are told that an adequate knowledge of Latin
Mrs. Charles 'Francis Adams, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, in the Hoover cabinet.
It is at an early age that famil- iarity with a foreign language can. most readily be acquired. But our private schools are restricted as to the time which can be devoted to general instruction and to modern constitutes the best preparation for languages by the classical standards the study of foreign languages. insisted on for admission to the The contention is plausible, but it public schools, which are still un-is contradicted by experience. How
we are to turn out an average clase of young men adequately equipped to compete with their contemporar- ies in other countries where educa- tional problems have been studied to meet modern requirements..
The
The se
Only a very few years ago, in examining the papers lasued at the common entrance to Public Schools, I found one marked "For Eton candidates only," in substitution
paper on English. for the subject of this substituted paper, for boys of twelve years and up- wards, was Latin Verse. complishment of verse in any lan- guage but one's own, and especially In a 'so-called dead language, cau only be reserved for the gifted few, and to demand as a test from a boy of twelve even the most elementary knowledge of Latin Verse scema, to me, at least, to indicate a quite out + of-date conception of what the first stages in the preparatory education of youth should be.
I
am quite against vocational training, and believe that the mind which has been developed on a broad educațional basis will rapidly acquire the professional or business instinct at the proper time, while contributing a broader outlook and an intelligent initiative not to be ex- pected from those who have been commercially trained from the cradle. Nor should I, of course, contend that efficient instruction in foreign languages in the early stages would alone suffice for the equipment of those who may have to deal with technical or commercial *issues in foreign countries. But it would at least prepare the ground and make the final stage far easier. Shall we continue for ever to give little boys who want to know about the world they live in, its story and its peoples, the chemistry of nature and the movements of the heavenly bodies, an arid nutriment of deriya- tions and syntax just because our fathers and our grand-fathers did- Land because we have not paused to reflect whether our Intellectual machinery may not be as far behind modern requirements as much of our productive machinery seems to be?
May 21, 1929.
Messrs. O. G. Anderson, E. Axon. Messrs. A. M. Birchall, F. Grey Burn, J. Barwick.
consciously influenced by the tradi-
many of our best classical scholars tion of the Middle Ages, whenever get beyond a limited familiarity schools were founded chiefly for the with and a rather grotesque use HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS training of those destined for the of the French tongue 7 And yet Church or the law.
Englishmen and Scotamen become admirable lngaists when they are given the opportunity. It is, I believe, in the interests of classical studies; which I should like to see within the reach of all, that initia- | tion in the dead languages should. be postponed until the young in- telligence has been developed and quickened by general education and instruction in the things which everyone should know, but which we generally have to pick up as best we can in later years with little method or exactitude.
Latin Secondary In continental country with which I am familiar doea the teach- ing of Latin begin until about the age of 12, that is in the secondary stage. If pupils were accepted by our public schools without any pre- vious classical preparation they would have had time at the private school to learn how to use their own language, thecould become really familiar with at least one modern language and acquire a sound basis of general education, a knowledge of the things about which the young. Drastic Revision Needed are instinctively desirous to be in- The bases of education in our formed. The pursuit of knowledge public and private schools have un- might then become attractive in doubtedly been much widened "in stead of being, as it is too often, i recent years. But a more drastic merely repugnant to them, Teach revision of system is necessary if
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