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“By S. R. LITTLĘWOOD.
MET the other day a rare but The whole thing is a vast
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not, at the moment, radiant pression of mutual mistrust be being an examiner with a heart. tween pedagogues, in which the My friend was in deep distress. examinees are just grata to the Like Hamlet hesitating to sinugh-aleve. Save in a matter of de- found that he was not born for his admits of other possibilities tor the praying Claudius, he hasnite competition-and even this. stern task.
there ought to be no need for any "I have been going through examinations at all for other than papers all day,” he said, "and I private students.
I foal want to throw up the job.
passed in all the Suppose n. boy is in the head Friends of Dr. Hugh A. Fawcett, that I have former M.0.11. in Hongkong, will be wrong young people and turned form of a great public school. the right. But what is an Why should anyone have to interested to learn that he has beminor to do? Is he to
zive examine him? Cannot his school give clear be trusted? But this spirit of ment of the London County Council, marks for originality and as Divisional Medical OMeer of Health. noss of thought, aptness and con- mistrust lies, as we all know, cisenoss of expression, a brilliant right at the heart of our educa- masking
of things unknown--all tional system. It goes, down to tella of a boy or
book, but
appointed to the Public Health Depart
As a rock in the Talkoktaul Govorn- was being drilled ment Quarry
and
karsham Commission on the police through yesterday, it became dislodgeil may be wrong. by the girl who the class-room Itsolf, where half forces of the United States, which and toppled down the slope, crushing just the sort to succeed in life of every day is wanted in a kind of inquest upon the work sub- was seriously Or is ho to plump for are said to be riddled with graft stone-cutter, who MODEL
mero posed to have been done the night injured, and had to he taken to alavish transcript accepted before.
of and to be working in connivancs hospital,
tradition, which may argue No-| One result of the universal with criminals and crooked poli-
thing beyond a careful crammer?"
mistrust is that examinations of How many matriculatora The pollee have been notified of the. ticians. This will
bo aur- not
disappearance of Ying Man-wa, aged other dispensers of the passports climate personality. Yet it is this type aru expressly devised to prising news to many Amorleans. 30, who has been missing from his of youth-so eagerly awaited just personality which is going to Indeed. we noticed in an Ameri, home at 19, Stanley Street since last now in thousands of homes-have count seventy-five out of સ Friday. The father Ying Hung-nan similar qualms of conscience? As hundred in after-life. Save. for can journal the other day a point-entertains fears that the young man things are, we shall never know. some vivas" in such things as ed assertion that "Detroit, Chi- may have committed suicide.
Only an impersonal number will French and German converra- cago, New York and similar cities
pronounce the "Yea" or The following forthcoming weddings of the
"Nay" tion.
the examinor. is kept from by
officia! havo
insolent
verdict. All the been ridden
the are announced: Staff Sergeant John little things that one possibly examinee. Surely the ideal that
knowing anything | about Landau, R.A.M.C., Military Honiton kindly and probably elderly hu-should be striven after is that he Bowen Road, to Miss Mary Wilson Nichol, No. 1, Patell Villas, Hankow man being could say to another should know just as much as he Road, Kowloon: Sergeant Edward just crossing the Rubicon of man- possibly can! This is what an Buckner, Mongkok Police Station, to hood or womanhood will go un.
Why employer would demand. Min May Jones, No. 165, Tam Kung said.
should an examiner be kept in Road, Kowloon.
Some results are sure to sur-Ignorance? Is it mistrust again? prise no one more than the vietor is it that he is so far beneath the The following forthcoming weddings--or victim.
lowest omelal standard of morality are announced:Mr. Leonid Grigotic-i
that he would instantly be wallow- vitvh Cotowez, No. 336. Lockhart
How many of us have passed ing in nepotism and bribery? Road, Hongkong, to Mina Lillian triumphantly in the very subjects Frances Stella Elms, No. 334. Lack of which we were certain we knew hart Road, Hongkong; Mr. Gormar least, and failed in the things Augusto de Pinns, No. 1, Kimber..
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1931.
THE CAPONE FARCE.
gangsters because political pull and outright corruption have kept the police from doing the jobs for which the public hires them." That is a sorry state of affairs, assuredly, but it appears to repre- sent the plain truth. There hus been so much made of the action instituted against Capone that It will be something in the nature
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My only other explanation is
mny be
average
of an unfortunate anti-climax fond, Kowloon, to Miss Marla Luiza we really had at heart! How that the whole thing
event, the manner in which he has
so far succeeded in getting sen- tence stayed is by no means re- assuring.
Force
become
Strand ́ West. Mr.
A
of
not be asked to
to go free. In any a arranged to shield
Nathan Road, Kowloon.
in just because we knew so much examiner from having to confess
his incompetence as a judge about the first question that there character. A sergeant-major can News has just been received in a was no time to answer the others! tell in a minute a likely lad from letter from Mr. J. Cotkle, a former How often has the sheer luck of the next man, and handle hund- Sub-Inspector of the Hongkong Folice happening to have been given reds a day. The examining board now retired and living at uncful "tip" brought about of Admirals have enriched the officers who are the Home that Sergeant E. J. Wilson, aussent that has no more relation Navy with colleague, died at the Halsworth to ability than a winning sweep Aother Zeppelin Triumph. Hospital, Suffolk, on June 11 last. ticket! How often have estimates pride of the nation and the envy So niggardly was Reuter's treat-member of the Hongkong Police Force, a whole life devoted to a wrong "a gray eye or so" round the For many years the deceased was a brought about in this way led to of the world on the strength of a few questions about Nelson and ment of the Graf Zeppelin's recent which he left in 1927 to 26 Home on profession! What does on table. But, the "educational" venture into the Polar regions that retirement. A genial figure, who had
with his amination discover of those hid- examiner must quite populač few people in Hongkong are aware colleagues, Sergeant Wilson's death den aims and hopes and facultice display a trace of personal in- thut the famous airship carried out has occasioned general regret, which youth cherishes so shyly sight if so, his reputation would what must be regarded as an epoch-
and so passionately?
be gone. Take, for example, an average. making flight. Without accom-
Two applications for extension of
The usual answer from those Observers of Americn'a methods plishing anything so spectacular as time in which to file a return of an "Euglish Literature" paper. What who admit the faults of imper- of dealing with gangsters may be a rendezvous with a submarine at allotment of shares were granted by has it got to do with any sugges-sonal examination is that there is the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) tion of the creative power that no alternative. But is there not? the North Pole--as was originally in the Supreme Court this morning. would make a literary career ad- Obviously no speedy revolution in forgiven for wondering when the planned the Zeppelin's crew are The applicants were the Han Fuk visable? The hackneyed opinione these matters is likely. Every- Al Capone farce is to terminate. well justified in enthusiasm over the Investment Co., Ltd., No. 67, Bonham of stock-critics, already fricasseed body cannot be a Rhodes, scholar, Two months ago, this noted rac-results of their splendid adventure. instructed by Mr. Horace Lu, uf dingorged, and that is all.
Hin-Shing Lo, in text-books, are expected to be and Mr. Haydn Wood's "test of Intelligence" in the striking of keteer surrendered to the au- The light proved, among other Messrs. Lo and Lo, appeared for the I remember not long ago acroquet halls with a tuning-fork thorities for violation of the In- things, that provided reasonable applicant in both cases, and explained) come Tax law and for conspiring precautions are taken beforehand, that the omissions had been due to young man, who has since done does not seem to me to offer an
inndvertence. He added that neither exceedingly well in a very dif-Immediate solution.
cramming to violate the Prohibition law. He the alrship is the ideal means for creditors nur, shareholders would be ferent, walk of life,
English Literature for the London My own feeling is that, letting pleaded guilty to the charges, and Arctic exploration. The old-time prejudiced by the delay.
Matriculation. I am not cx- it was generally thought that it to complete what the Zeppelin's Ph.D., M. FR.G.S., of the White not read a single English classic boy and girl who goes in for a Dr. Alexander Cannon, MJ, Ch.D.,ggerating in saying that he had everything else atay as it is, much might be done by giving every long last he would be incarcera-scientifle staff, working in perfectHouse, Flamborough, and of the through in his life, or any part public examination a dosalera ted. The judge, however, post-case and surrounded by all the com- London County Council Mental of one for pleasure.
kind of glorified school report, poned sentence for three weeks, forts of civilisation, achieved in Hospital Service, The County Hall, "For heaven's anke." he said, which would tell each examiner for reasons which we have been two short days. It was found in passed the examinations for the Give me the names and the dates ought to know.
Westminster Bridge, London, has don't ask me to read anything everything about them that he It should contain able 10 discover. When the possible to carry out the programme b.P.M., of the Royal College of and a line or two that I can their athletic as well as their
plotted out in Berlin owing to the Physicians of London, and of the period had expired. it waS in-
unexpected importance of early Royal College of Surgeons of England, memorise about each, and I will academic achievements, their pro-
do my best.' timated that a further month's
posed profession the time. discoveries. The airship; for in and was admitted for the diploma on
Juno the 16th, 1931. In January He passed. postponement would be granted. stance, spent nearly twenty-four 1931 he was elected F.R.S.M., and
testimonials-anything that would It is not really the boy or girl In the course, he again appeared hours over Franz Josef Land, when made Member of the Sections
of who is being examined, in what help to give an idea of the kind
ex-and
of boy or girl he is dealing with, afford that sympathetic in Court, on July 30th, when his only three had been provided for in Neurology and of Psychiatry. He leone may call "educational"
lecturer in Paychiatry.
aminations, but his or her teacher. human interest which is at pre- Inwyers asked that the previous the airship's schedule. The reason
sent lacking. plea of guilty might be withdrawn.nvas that the geographers aboard. The judge held over his decision found in that region a task which until the following day, when per the remapping of the entire archi filled them with rejoicing, muinely, mission to withdraw the plen of pelago, the outlines of which were gulity in respect of the Income found to be marked extremely in-
expedition would have needed years
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trial has now been fixed for early After they had completed this in- next month, when the gangster's valuable work, the Zeppelin moved motion to withdraw his plen in on to Nicholas II Land. renamed respect. of the Prohibition law Northland, where uguin, the to- count will also be decided. It is pography was found to be quite
that shown different from
upon reasonable to assume that when
ordinary maps. The area is far September comes round there
larger than has hitherto been sup- will either be further obstacles posed, and Professor Samolovitch,, raised to the prosecution, or the the head of the scientific staff, is trial will be spun out unduly and convinced that Northland will offer all manner of technicalities in- a wide field for ground exploration, troduced, with a view to getting certain evidences being obtained
of large fron ore and coal deposits. the charges dismissed.
If this were just an ordinary closer to the Polo than 600 miles The Zeppelin did not approach trial, the law's delays would not owing to objections by insurance greatly matter, but the point to be companies, but its behaviour in kept in mind is that "Scarface" high latitudes affords convincing Capone ha become something proof of ability to weather the more than just a law-bresker, or with ease, and it is hoped that the climatic conditions in the Arctic merely another gang leader. He venture will be repeated on a some.. has become the personification of what broader baals in the near organised crime in the United | future. States. For nearly a decade hla
namo has stood for desperate, insolent Inwlessness. By his `vory Pleading, guilty to a charge of, re- turning to the Colony before the existence, he has served notice on expiration of his ten years banish- the rest of the country that or-ment, a man namod il "Fong was sentenced to nine months' hard labour ganised government in a large this morning at the Kowloon MagiR- American city can come perilous- 'tracy by Mr. Frazor.
"No, I didn't, enjoy my trip home. They'd bad a big. boom down thero and the town has grown so much there'a,
hardly anything left of it.”
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I would suggest that this should not only be read and digested and marks given for it, but that it should be endorsed with comment by each examiner at each examina- tion, whether the candidate pass-. ed or failed. In this way there would be 4 chance of Anding out where the fault was, and also, perhaps, some consolation. The spirit underlying the whole thing should be that the examination is to help the young entrant to dis- cover his or her chances in life, not merely to gratify aminer's vanity over some tricky verbal catch, or to stifle origina) idena in schoolmaster or pupil.
an ex-
Also it seems to me a good scheme that even if there would not be time for long talks with thousands, the examiner, should have the right to ask for a, però. Bonal Interview with any candi- date who specially Interests him, or over whose worthiness he is in doubt. Let favouritism do its worst, the more of this the better. The examinor should be a friend, not an enemy.
LET OUR HEROES HAVE THEIR FLAWS.
By A. P. GARLAND UNDENIABLY, blographers of the Victorian vintage were largely tainted with the hypocrisy that marked the age.
Too often, when they wrote the life of a great man they care, fully ignored or glossed over any-
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