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EXAMINATIONS. EXOMINATIONS.
BOYS AND GIRLS.
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Broar, Dec., ond - A British firm, the Tungstone
An important principle affecting Co. has produced secondary education in this coun Seenes of uproar marked the Accumulator annual meeting of Marenoi's Wire-wireless and cur batteries of arpat:] try was raised at the annual Head- masters Comference, meeting in when the les. Tegraph Co., Ltd., to-day, attern for which cheraists all the world Rugby School today,
apinion was definitely expirersed the Coniught Rooms, following a over have been hoping for years,
All the problems of making achy resolution that the same stan dard of examination was not de speech by Mr. C. L, Nordon, who was chairman of the English Share-cumulators arise from the fact that Kirable or necessary in the case of holders Committee during the re- the average owner of them cannot Loys and girls. This subject areže cent negotiations for the reorgani] be expected to treat them with the frear the proposal of the headmis
of Council
the bring care, which the chemist would tresses of secondary schools to the
Examinations sation of the company.
Board of Education Inst natuu give them.
that there should be less rigidity for the School Certificate, and a in the subjects required to qualify resolution was brought forward to-
with
ith day asking the Conference to agres. general principle anderlying b Headmistresses' Memorandum so far as it lys down that a relaxation of the group stem is desirable in a con-
However, the report was carried with only one dissentient.
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Wireless batteries are often left Lord, Inverforth, presiding, moved fully charged for a month on end: the adoption of the report and ac-ear batteries are required to give counts; and referred to the illness; müden terrific outpourings of power that the sylf-starter can turn of Senatore Marcuni, who was the
over an engine stiff, with congealed only director absent.
"Probably the beat tonic that Senator Marconi, can have," he said, is the knowledge that the Beam system has now come into its own and has completely changed the whole aspect of world telegraphic enmunications."
The average car owner, not knowing whether his battery is fully charged or not, leaves the dynam switch permanently in the "charge" position, with the result that he is regularly overcharging the battery.
Far too often the acid level is neg. 64. A Share Dividerd.
leted: the water in the battery eva- Referring to a dividend recom.porates until the platom are only mendation of sd, a share less inhali covered. Not only does this enn tax), Lord Inverforth said.
We realise that the dividend re mean that the battery, to all intents presents a small return, but for and purposes, has beŋg cut in half, reasons which I believe will com- but there is a grave isk that the inend themselves to the shareholders Reid solution will grow se strong, We do not feel justified in making since only the water, not the acid. evaporates, that it will eat into the plates and ruin them,
a large distribution."
He announced that the technics staff of the company were construct ing the special telephone apparates and preparations were now being mate for Bram telephone trials"en a commercial scale.
The Ideal.
Every accumulator consists of one | or more cells, each giving two volts, There was a volley of questions. Each cell contains positive and
when the chairman had finished. negative plates, the positive plates Mr. S. Crawley remarked, amid being grids, the openings in which cheers, that eight directors werel
are tightly filled with peroxide of quite enough for the company.
Mr. Nordon rose to make a speech, lead, while the negative plates are but was told to wait until after') also grids, filled with pure leadi.' questions.
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The
siderable numier of cases," danger of altering a standard which now has recognition from profes- signal bodies was pointed out, and also the divergent probabile fatores of careers of boys and girls.
Mr. Frank Fletcher, of Charter. house, was in the chair, and there a Aundred delegates We're about Disent.
The Situation Surveyed. Dr. Norwood (Harrow), the chairman of the Examinations Council of the Board of Education
said:
There has been in very
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siderable increase in the number of boys and girls anita vast increase in the secondary schools for number of boys and girls enjoying secondary edavation. There was evidence from the boys, and still more from the girls that many were finding very hard to reach the standard of the School, Certi fiente, and the question was asked whether the group requirement was the right sort of requirement to make. It was urged on the side embers of Loys to enser, the of the lays that it had forced whole black coat ocupations; on the Now the ideal substance of which side of the girl it was pointed out considerable fore, he Mr. Kellaway's Salary. to make these grids would be lend) with We shareholders have had cur itself, because then the grid would thought-that the majority of them shares halved" said a woman share rombine with the filling, which could were going to le wives and mothers in afterlife, and therefore the holder. A shilling is as much to me-n-fall-out.........
proper education for girls" vASTORT German firms have offered thou
14 the as a hundred pounds to Mr. Keth
which gave full value way. I think that his salary and sands of pounds to any engineer the fees of the other directors should who could show them how to dis-esthetic and the domestic sides. be haired until the company has cast plates of pure lead which will The question was further coil- eated by headmistresses being con- reached a more satisfactory posiĮ be rigid enough for the purpose.
vinerd that what was sauce for the tion." (Cheers.)
The inventor of the Tungstane nose gas, and always must he, [At the last mreting Mr. Kellabattery has not only surreeded in
sauer for the gander. (Laughter.) way's salary was stated to be this; be produces plates so rigid that They were all convinced that the about ten thousand pounds. ] there is no need for wooden separa- Liveliness rapidly developed whes; tors between them, as always used School certificate had not only its but it had recognition from profes- Mr. Nordon rose to address the in ordinary batteries in which the matriculation value. as at present.
sional bodies. meeting. He was greeted with kids are made of antimony. cheers and shouts of Sit down aud Cut it short and for a few
Plates Won't Buckle. Thas there is no internal resist
moment there was a running fire sfare; the containers are of metal interruptions.
hours.
Mr. Cary Gilson (King Ed- ward's School, Birmingham) said at business employees nearly al- or glass, never celuloid, and there ways insisted on a Matrienlation Silenced By Resolution. is risk of fire. It is impossible ertificate, The general answer to
there should be two certificate One shareholder moved that Mr. to buckle the plates or to cause the problem seemed to be thas Nordon should not be further hoed them to be permanently sulphated.
Jr. C A. Alington (Eton) The motion was put, and after a The accumulator can be charged one for hoys and another for girls. slow of hands was declared carried as fast as you like: even the first
very few thinght that girls' schools had Mr, Nordon: Do I understand charge can be given in
The makers actually recon- modeled themselves too closely on What was wanted that I am not to be allowed to amend that it should he kept con-inys schools,
Was soune gezins who "world de for. dress this meeting!
tinuously overcharged, as generally happens with car batteries for the the education of girls what had the education of greater part of the year. Even een done for dead-short-circuiting will do it no boys by the great headmasters of harm. You can have a Tungstone the past. wireless reumalator fully charges The Rev. C. Grant (St. George's and untouched for there months and School, Harpenden, it will still retain three-quarters of education, is practised) said he was cordially in favour of differ its full charge.
boys nation. As many girls as from his school passed the Cert- Bonte exauditation, but the girls suffered more in" the process.
The hairinan's motion was then passed unanimously.
The Chairman: That is right. You are ruled out by majority.
Mr. Nordon: Then I think it is about time the procedure of these meetings should be radically chang
d.
There were repented cries of Let Mr. Nordon be heard," and a clergy- man protested that Mr. Nordon had been most unfairly treated.
"Obstruction."
A suggestion was made that a per sistent interrupter should be exclud d. It is pretty obvious," remark ed the proposer, that a number! A of people have come here for the purpase of obstructing this meet- ing,
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Sit down, you little ead." shout-number of musical experts, some of whom saw in it a development of with comparable piano-playing. that of Liest over that possible on The piano wYLS the Mozart spinet, invented by Emanuel Moor,
ed the interrupter.
Finally the resolution that Mr. Nordon be not heard was agais put and carried by a larger majority than before.
where
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REPLIES TO DR. LEMPRIERE.
The Headmaster of Eton (Dr C. A. Alington): "The "criticism that boys are less robust does not Atrake the ordinary observer, and I du ant notice that they are softer." Mr. E. . A. Beckwith, headruna- er of the Imperial Service College, I do not think they Windsor: are physically inferior in any way to boys before the war.
The re
Several headmasters and medical officers of big public schools dis.markable thing is that though there a
as age of foppishness, Loys are with the agreed, in interviews statement of Dr. L. R. Lemprier, every bit as ruarly as they used to VIENNA, Dec. IGN.
fellows." Extraordinary charges of mass medical officer of Eaileybury Colbe, and I think they are very fine
against egg, that, the public schoolboy of
Dr. A. I Simey, medical officer at Rugby School: "I think much The meeting then proceeded in Hungarian.
more trouble should be taken both an orderly fashion.
since its first appearance in Lon. Friederich Grumenberg, who has today was taller than the boy of Mr. Morgan, a former directar. don it has been very greatly deve-jong bren" wanted" by the Czech forty years ago, but was more of pleaded for a composition of differ: oped and improved and it is now police on euspicion of espionage a Sybarite and a weakling. Other
This is, to my mind, an ences, and deprecated suicidal used exclusively by the pianist, in Hungarian, interests, and has statenient made by Dr. Lempriory in their homes and at school to now been arrested at Bratislava, were that there was an insufficiency enforce personal tidiness and clear-
of fresh fruit in the dietary of liness. Until the new board Miss Windfrid Christie, who recent
elementary principle of health, the agitation." had proved to be incapable, let ly gave a concert in Berlin and Czesho Slovakia.
The man, who was a Hungarian public schools, and that boys re gitation cense. (Cheers.)
achieved a very remarkable success,
far too indulgeatly at home and detachment during the of condition. Among the opinions I think that boys are often treated Miss Christie in enabled to produce artillery officer, and commanded a turned to school after holidays out importance of which is overlooked. entirely new effects, as well as ea hancing those posle on the ordi."White" terror, is said to have expressed were the following:
Dr. Hallows, medical officer at allowed to spend too much on them- selves. The detary of some schools should be modernised in accordance A Shareholder: What about an nary piano, by a means which is constituted himself executioner of answer to the questions which havens simple as it is ingenious. The Communits who took part in Beta Marlborough:
Public school health is definite-with the finding of recent research, been asked concerning directors'
upper manual of the piano is an Kun's Bolshevist coup of 1919.
It is alleged that shortly alterly on the upgrade. We have few
fresh vegetables, the supply of octave higher than the lower. fees?
Czechs from the that wide stretches, such as a seath the war Grunenberg kidnapped weaklingsaslarborough, and the epecial attention being devoted to
boys have healthier habis than fruit, and will." which can often only be taken by hundreds of
and
Dr. Charles Budd, medical officer neighbourhood
hfty years ago. Since the war of splitting then, can be played a Bratislava thirds, one note being taken on the ferried them across the Danube letter type of boy physically bas of the Leys School, Cambridge. agreed that Loys wore ampered upper and the other on the lower to Hungary, where he executed been coming to Marlborough'
Father Chichester, headmaster of and overfed during the holidays, manuel. Besides this, there is a sixty of his captives.
The report and accounts were de- clared carried with only one dissen tient
The Chairman: The answers are
All to be found in the nccounts.
A resolution re-electing eight directors, moved by Mr. Kellaway, was carried with eight dissentients.
WOLVES IN BELGIUM.
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BEUBELS.
Wolves have made their appear the neighbourhood of Soignies and killed and enten some deer belonging to M. Paternostre, the Mayor. Sheep also have heen attacked near Braine-le-Comte.
"White
When Bela Kun's, Government
pedas..
which can couple both key
The piano is like a of Hungary fell, Gruneberg, it is. Beaumont College, Old Windsor, and that when they returned to colour-scheme which can give stated, made a number of trips to said he had in his college o ocrtain school the regular life and healthy deeper shadows and higher lights Visa, where Hungarian Comnumber of buys from America, and diet and the inevitable reaction. than the schemes which preceded it, munists had taken refuge, seized, he would say that the English boy"Conditions at our public schools and coming from the English prepara-to-day are infinitely better than and in so doing, provides for bound, and gagged them, many of the technical difficulties despatched them in packing cases tory school was better developed they were years ago, and any de in Hungars." where they were and of greater weigha As for the terioration in the physical condi- and developments of modern music.
statement that English. boys wertion of the boys is largely due to The piano is now being made in promptly executed.
officials have no control." Grunenberg was arrested white soft, this was pure unadulterated circumstances over which school Paris and Berlin and there is"
altending the funeral of his father, ncneensé." single example in London...