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QUEEN'S present Sue Carol in The Big Party." The romance of a shop girl and her "boy friend,” played against a varie
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Accorilance with Ordinance I No. 7 of 1930, the EXCHANGE | BANKS will be 'CLOSED for the transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY, 1st of September (the First Monday in September), Hong Kong, 27th August, 1930.
it is just posible that some of the gated setting, ranges from a more fery educationists who listen-Third Avenue tenement to an
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, ed to his address at the City of elaborate roof bungalow and 2 London Vacation Course might gorgeously modernistic modiste's cHOOL RE-OPENS, and New
doubt the spendki record attached establishment, and further allora S Students reversed, at Stanley to his name. He was in Socratieed with delightful comedy and o September lat at 9.30 a.m. vein, and neatly pricked a few pre-half a dozen of the season's catch-For Prospectus, apply to Mr. LI HOI-TUNG, Messrs. Banker & tentious bubbles. Or rather he lest songs-that, in a nutshell, is Co., 4, Queen's Road C..
or, the quietly deflated certain over-blown "The Big Party.” A talkie film. WARDEN. St. Stephen's 'College,
Stanley. balloons which are floating incòn- veniently low above the educational
CENTRAL features William'
field. If we read his address aright Fewell and Richard Arlen in "The HONG KONG FOOTBALL CLUB. his plea was for a jinlicious balance Four Feathers."
A war in which and for a healthy attitude of sceptic-the casualties were almost as ism-in the proper sense
of the age as those of the world con- THE FIRST PRACTICE for the cothing Season will take place word-lowards many of the educa-lict forms a thrilling background #ional nostrums of the day. Noor" this Paramount film. Then the Club ground on TUESDAY, doubt they have all got "something Dervish Rebellion against the September 2nd, at 5.15 p.m. All in them," and all can put up n' good British in the Soudan in those interested are requested to account of themselves. But that 1881 cost more than 6,000,000 attend. was true even of the worst heresies ives. A magnificent spectacle that were ever started.
throughout A sound film.
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lion. Secretary, Hong Kong, August 28, 1930.
THE BRITISH CORPORATION REGISTER OF SHIPPING & AIRCRAFT.
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All that is good in the principle that education is a training for citizenship is of quite respetable Mackaill and Jack Mulhall in MAJESTIC presents Dorothy antiquity is only another way The Crystal Cup." a film without of putting the old truth that the "villain."
What "menace" true end of education is not merely does appear in the picture is in kaowledge, but that much, rarer
only the first scene, but his in-l thing, understanding. When people talk of training for citizenship what fluence during the rest of the they too often have in mind is story is sufficient to make the person who retes their party ticket plot a highly dramatic one. and accepts the idols of their parti- silent film. cular corner of the market place. The universo diffusion of compul- STAR featurs John Barrymore sory education has made the State in "Eternal Love." It is a story school what it could never be in the of love and passion. of deep older era, when education was con-hatreds and gay abandon, of tense fined to a few-part of the State moments and breath-taking machinery for producing "not a climaxes. The high Swiss Alps limited class of electors and rulers and the simple folk who dwell in but the whole body of voters, each one of the villages provide the of whom is to have the same power locale for "Eternal Love"SĂ as the others. It is therefore, silent film. supremely important that the
schools should turn out as efficient
and intelligent a body of men and WORLD presents "The Legen- women as possible, capable not only dary Vixen," a Chinese drama. of filling their respective places in the social and industrial machine, but also of satisfying the late Lord Morley's searching test of whether a man was educated or not, viz., the capacity of recognising when a case is proved.
Mr. Fisher subjected to a light but searching, examination the en- thusiasms of the School of Liberty movement, which frowns upon strict discipline and is shocked at the crude instruments by which it was enforcad, which rejects all repres- sions, and would let the children shout and make a noise and in all things follow their bent. "Spare your little flock, Master," said the genial Martial, centuries ago; "if they play and keep well in the sum mer heats, that is enough." Educa- tional theorists are usually interest- ing and always worth listening to when, they talk of the Importance of sease training, and self-training in little groups, and learning by means of action, vocational Instruction and the visitation of factories, the re- fining and stimulating induence of the best literature and the best music, and so on. Each theory may well be admirably adapted for cer taln individuals and for certain types. But State schools are for young people "in the lump." There are enough ideals and systems to require a working school day of thrice the present length, with ex- tended leisure hours--all equally regulated-lo correspond. Happily there are limits to experiment. The ferment, however, ahowa that Education is well alive. But, as Mr. Fisher shrewdly observed, "in the last, rewrt the profit depends on the teacher who really knows the lesson and has faith in its value." One school la vary like another. It is the teachers who differ most- London Daily Telegraph.
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