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THE WEATHER IN 1916.
In his report for 1918 the director of the Royal Observatory, Hongkong, (Hr
T. F. Claxton) saya →→→
EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS..
DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
thousand schools inspected by the Board, there were no fewer than 100 different current and specialized examinations for the Army, Navy, and many kinds of pro fessions.
He could not imagine anything mor The principal features of the weather.
In the House of Lords, recently, Lord distracting or paralysing for educational in 1i6 were the large departures from.
progross. For the last two or three years normal wind velocity in the different and the heavy rains from May
Education had been trying to consolidate months 31st to June 13, when 30.875 ins. fell, Muir Mackenzie called attention to the successive Presidents of the Board of followed by a drought from October 25th subject of national education with special and unify the whole of this system of to the end of the year, when only 0.125 reference to public schools. It was co-examinations, the general idea being that ins of rain' fell.
for scholars of 17 or 18. This pro Barometric pressure was considerably reded that there must be a reformed and there should be two standard examine below normal in February and June, and national system of education. What was tidna, the first for scholate of ideada tla he learned, was making a very far considerably above normal in July. The the plan of the public schools in this sys- zen of national education? They had
value to mean pressure for the year was 29.832 in 1915 and ins.. as against 20.838 ins
certainly during the time for which he 29.844-ins. for the past 33 years.
The highest pressure was 30.382 is, could testify, justified the highest claims on January 11th, as against 30.375 ine. in 1915 and 0.509 ins. for the past which could be put forward on their In those branches of industry behalf. The lowest pressure was 20.304 years. ins, on August 11th, as against 29,364
impression on t
minds of
ins in 1915 and 28.783 ins, for the past where science was required not only had were now be they cared to co-operate
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The mean temperature for 'e year was 71.8deg, ug against 13.4 deg. 3015 and The 73.8deg. for the past 33 years. highest temperature was 24deg., on August 5th, as against 93.1deg. in 1915 The and deg for the past 3 years. lowest temperature was 193deg, on Janu
ary 24th, as against 41.7deg, in 1916 andligious The ppily no re-
32deg. for the past 3 years.
The wind velocity was above normal-in
the scholar; it must be a source of grest ed, it would also be a benefit to the relief to the schoolmaster, and, he believ fession or institution on whose behalt the beld. these highly specialized examinations
Here again
The Board of public schools, educational progress. could contribute a good deal towards Education had no desire to interfere with its policy on them. the autonomy of public schools, or enforce
February for the first time since August be saw a paper manifesto that spoke tion) agreed with Lord Haldane tant tho
were
public school men found their way, but It was clear that if we were to maintain our mercantile supremacy more use us be unde in the future of the best men public schools and universities. It from
-PLACE OF RELIGIOUS TEACHING. was vital that the salaries of masters should be better than they wore. In the
Lord Parmoor (who had a notice sa the of Educa public schools there was
few days
paper to call attention to religious educa of fusion, and tion bud
conceivable that true test of education should be its tendency to elevate the moral standard In his of coordination. Was it
and character of the students. the training in elementary schools 1911 (except in July, 1914, when it was also slightly above Hormal). The month bo such that the pupils from those schools
Was
it possible au to co- quacy of curricula to which so auch Winchester ly departures from normal were unusual could compete with scholars at Eton and view efficiency of organization and ade
mean velocity was
ordinate the examinations as to deal fair-altention had been paid were, after all, 1016. The I large in
unless they considerably shore normal in February, March, Juna, and September, and considly with that claim? Was it possible to nothing more than the dry bones of our erably below in Jannary, April, July, reserve free places in the boarding-houses educational system
From October to Decem- for boys from clementary schools, and if vitalized by religion. In any scheme of more immediately required reconstruction and August.
than our methods and system of religious ber it was moderately below normal. The it were possible would the boys he happy reconstruction there was nothing that
instruction. What they wanted was mean velocity for the year was 122 in those circumstaners?
Christian solution of the question in the m.ph. or 0.6 mph, below normal. This in the greatest mean velocity since 191; when it was 12.9 m.p.h.
sense that every parent who was com
of religious determining what form pelled to send his child to a public ele montary school should have a chance of education he would like that child to ba brought up in. They wished to eliminate controversy between denominationalists and others, and to eliminate it on the from the religious question the unending broadest and most tolerant basis. But it was useless attempting to provide an im- tenchers. were no qualified proved system of religious education if there Teachers were the pivot of the whole educational system, and at the present time there was no effective religions in struction in training colleges.
PETALIC SCHOOLS AND SPECIALIZATION. Viscount Haldane said that he sym- pathized with the appeal of the noble The maximum, velocity for one hour, as recorded by the Beckley Anemograph lord that the Government should assign a definite place in its schemes of educa was 35 miles, at Oh. on September 7th, As against 50 miles in 1915 and 108 miles tion to public schools, but that he realiz The maximamed the difficulties which would have to be Public schools for the past 33 years. aquall velocity, as recorded by the Dines encountered in doing so. Baxendell Anemograph, was at the rate were not State institutions, and the Gov. of 05 m.ph., at Oh. 20m. on September ernment could not easily control them, 7th, as against 60 m.p.h. in 1915 and 105 No survey of the national system of education was complete which did not m.p.h for the past 6 years.
Persons realized much anticipated there has been a partial recognize the part, played by the great recovery from the very low wind veloci-public schools. ties of 1915, but at present there are no more than they did a short time ago that signs of the wind records giving the boys wore sent to school to learn Latin or Greek or science, not to make them normal values of former yours.
Latin or Greek scholars or scientists, but to make them men and to develop their
The Bishop of Wakefield said a certain humanity in the best and broadest sense- That general kind of education was not amount of religious education was given any in the clementary schools. Yet, by a most to be attained by specializing in particular topic, but in making the most extraordinary contradiction, teacher complete individual possible of the pupil, was trained in the training colleges on All boys were not in the same position. the method of imparting instruction in The grent bulk of them could not sen- every subject save the one which, in the
of oppinion
the overwhelming body of the tinue their education after 17 os for people, should be the predominial sub-
A dis-Ject in the training of character.
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A sorious drought commenced on Octo-tinguished professor had been of opinion the
denominational ber 4th and continued till the end of the that up to the age of 18 or 19 the spirit of things was to be found in the franker
varieties year. The only rain which fell during of humanism-the spirit of great subjects recognition by the Board of Education this period was 0.595 inch from October taught in a great way-should be the of the
the different the signs-between 20th 24th, 0.075 inch on November 21st order of the day. Specialization should beliefs and in a more hearty co-opera- to 22nd, and 0.050 inch on December 23rd. follow at the University. That was ation and unity of action of which he saw the Light rain, to the extent of 0.345 inch, great conception and, he thought, a cor-
vancement of religious education fell from January 1st to 5th, 1917, but rect one. An expression as to the posi-denominations themselves for the aud a dry period followed until Febraury tion which the great public schools should 6th, when a perind of drizzling rain com- fill would be of great help to headmasters. schools, which seemed to him to be the menced, 0.125 inch falling from February In no other country was it possible for most vital of all causes of social reform
persons to open schools without being and the uplifting of the community. 6th to 12th.
enlled on to give some proof, that they The centre of a small typhoon passed were not likely to do more harm than No school should be allowed to within 20 miles to the west of the Obser- good. vatory on the morning of June 2nd. The exist which did not tench ap to the He maximum wind velocity was only 44 miles standard which was best for the national per hour, however, at 22h. on June 1st.life. There was much complaint of the The maximum wind velocity for the year, absence of the teaching of science, 55 m.p.h., ccurred during a typhoon thought that there was great improve which passed about 150 miles to the southment in that respect, but old ideas were still too strictly followed. More scholar of Hongkong on September 6th-7th.
ships should be made available for those The annual expenditure on the Obser- who wished to pursue the study of tory for the past ten years is as fol-science. lows:-
EXPENDITURE.
Total Ex-
Year. pendiore.
1907
$20,110,53
1908
21,110.61
1909 7010
22,286.63
Increase. Decrease. $ 115.36 1,000.09 1,878.02
21,787.56
1911
23,363.02
1,585.47
1912
22,595.08
1913
24,255.49 1.800.41
1914
25,308.31
1,142 82
1915
23,233,12
1916
21,977.78
SHIP SCUTTLING.
THE GOVERNMENT ESPLY,
Lord Sheffield was opposed to any at tempt to repen the question of denomina tional education.
Lord Sydenham said that if they upon the country would be disastrous. neglected spiritual education the result The most terrible calamity that the world had ever known could plainly be traced to misdirection in education. The train- ng of the people of Germany had operat catastrophe. Perhaps the greatest lesspa of the war was the extreme danger of an cd to bring about the present great education which failed to uphold ther higher law.
The Earl of Crawford, speaking for the Board of Education, said that of the
The Earl of Crawford said that how- seven public schools, so defined by the
ever unfortunate might be the need for Pablic Schols Act, Harrow, Winchester, Charterhouse, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Westleaving this issue on one side, the Depart G01.08 minster and Eton, having between then ment would not be justified in imperil- over 3,800 pupils, two-Harrow andling measures of development which were 737.94 Rugby had on their own initiative been universally admitted to be essential to inspected by the Board of Education, and the progress of education by embodying were on the Board's fist of efficient in them anything which would raise acute In addition to the public controversial matters. Was the Parlia 1.165.19. schools.
One might, per- 1,255.34 schools, as 'defined by the Pablic Schools entary areau most likely to prove the
Act, there was a very much larger body arena for settlement?
EINER'S PLATES CUT AND PAINTED OVER
The manner in which the German crews in ships interned in America did their best to render them liable to sink is described by Mr. C. W. Brett, managing director of Barimar, Limited, welding. general, and motor engineers, in a letter to the Daily Express, protesting against the release of interned Germans in Eng land
After the American Government took over the German steamers interned in United States ports, its inspectors die covered that the German crews had made extensive use of oxyacetylene cutters partially to cut through the joints and hullplate seams in almost all the ships interned in New York Harbour this had been surreptitiously, but skilfuly, done, and the sections cut had been carefully painted over so that all truses of the work were obliterated
of schools, is Tablic, but not technical-haps, hope that in other directions real
ANY OLD HAT WILL DO.
war-time; The Milliner and Draper shrudi cfaso- is most unpatriotic to go shopping in
down.
that spending is a crime; We mustn't baya bat far less a gown, Everyone, not idiotic, know,
time just "It," we want to do our bit, looking all the
If
On clothes we simply mustn't spend a you Whore'er we go we're sure-(it's the way
to win the war
Our oldest drecs and hat will always do.· ́
ly subject to control or inspection by the success might be attained. Department. There were, roughly speak- ing, 119 of these schools represented by the Headmasters' Conference, an alto- gethe they contained out 25,000 Out of these schools, 35, with 11,000 pupils, were inspected by the Board and were on the efficient Hat, Thirty-four schools, with upwards of balance, 27 schools with 13,000 pupils 10,000 pupils, received grants, and of the were neither inspected by the Board nor to these two great categories of schools, receipt of money grants. In addition the Royal Navl schools at Dartmouth and Osborne had been inspected by the Board of Education. It appeared to him that State might look to gain help from inspection was one of the fields on which the public schools and the public schools present the Board of Education might look to gain help from the State. inspected nearly 1,000 secondary schools.. A warranted once for all
From that list of schools the greatest aired or constitutical Di.
schools were perforce omitted, the schools. charges from the Urinary
of high prestige and ancient and honour-
Orgas in either sex. The
able tradition which could make such an
famous Pills also cure Grayel,
appeal to the teaching profession as to It would appear The purpose evidently was so to secure the best of the teachers available both would be Pains in the Back and al
valtable Kidney Disorders. Free from weaken the hulls and supports as prac in each morous Forty-goes-Siletically to assure the sinking of the that co-ordination wo rees. Bold by all Chemists steamers when they again put to sea to the Board and its inspectors and to He thought that Lord Haldane was per- and Storekeepers throughest Fortunately, the damage was discovered those ri ponsible for the public schools
and it is gratifying to know that the scientific welder can thoroughly repair hapa unduly severe on public schools for That, no every part injured. The steamer which confining the vast bulk of their scholar-Yet
doubt, was their traditional policy, but sustained the most damage was the best ships to classical subjects. of the fleet, the Veterland, valued at the public schools were not free agents £2,000,000,
ties maintained compulsory Greek it was the matter. So long as the universi- essential that the public schools should train their boys accordingly. ⠀
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* In publishing our protest against replacing interned Germans in British engineering workshops, we had in mind the possibility of activities of this kind." Mesars Barimar add that they recently. had occasion to write in regard to an attempt made by the Friends Emergenty Committee to instal a German in their scientific welding works.
TYRANNY OF EXAMINATIONS
Bit by bit a vast tyranny of examina- tions had grown up, so extensive and complex as to threaten progress in real education. He was informed that in the
When the boys come from the trenches for
a week in Blighty-land, They like to see us dowdy and depressed;
cheering; they can't stand Any garment looking French is much toá
To see their girls or mothers sinartly
dressed.
of joy and laughter, It's a dismal time they re after, not a round.
So they like to see us locking dismal tvo;
Any antiquated hat will do When we meet them from the hous, any
old and shabby post,
thing to do Is to let the country's trade go to the wall? we wonder, is it true that the west.
We are working day and night, so tha
those we love may bght
And answer to a man their exarades' cal
hoy's come home they say Let those sneer at us who may; when the
That we did our bit in keeping up the
a trader.
And through doing that the war debt, will We have helped to find the money, and to
keep a place for sonny,
be paid.