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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1936.
How long will Public Schools survive? Eleven headmasters out of
twelve have no anxiety
about this question..
B
ESIDES the people who make jokes about
the "old school tie," there are people who seriously believe that the public school has outlived its function.
Yet, out of a dozen heads of public schools who have just written chapters of a book about them, Mr. Roxburgh, the head of Stowe -the youngest public school—is the only one who secs the possibility that they may not be "destined to survive much longer."
comme
Into
The "public" schools existence, ns Mr. Roxburgh points out, because there were no local schools giving anything more than a mattering of education. People who wanted their som educated, and could find the money, had to send them to boarding schools, or have tutors
home..
Nowadays secondary schools are verywhere, and Mr. Roxburgh real- tses that “ultimately the country will be able to do without boarding schools it 11 wishes to."
"Nobody can deny," says Mr. Roxburgh, that the ordinary board- ng school brings up its boys la n nighly artifelal environment. They see a little of their feminine con- temporaries that to a few of them. woman will seem a remote and un- rent creature for years afterwards.
Nevertheless, Mr. Roxburgh is n staunch defender of the publie school. It has the advantage of being in the country, it avoids tiring
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"The Headmaster Speaks" (Kegan Paul, 78. Od.) is the volume to which the twelve Heads contribute.
Quiet Corner
HOW
Tow the stray creature found its way, here is a mystery. tifienze fetish, whleb hast-was-first-noticed-by-its-for- standardised examinations in recent
lorn crying from the dell beside the garden, before it flickered like a pale ghost among the tall Diants the dusk.
It is interesting to note that two years. of the twelve Heads who dwell with most emphasis on the need of reli-
On the other hand, the end of
gion in the public school are Mr. M. Clifton, Mr. Whatley, holds that the L. Jucks, of Mill _Hill__ (Congrega- school certiftente exams "compel a tional), and the Rev, V. P. Nevill, master to think of the boy at the OS,B.,
of Ampleforth (Roman bottom of the form as well ng the Catholic).
boy at the top."
Spiritual Needs
of the authoritarian States.
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One of the faults of the present system, says Mr. Whiley, "Is the failure to insist enough in the early tha however
IT is mainly the young,
observes Mr. Jarks, who stages of education acclaim the dictatorships much we sugar the pill, the young have got to learn to master what is at flest uncongenial. Life does not "But," he adds, "it is doubtful if consist in doing only what une likes any of these dictatorships is really doing." adequate for human needs, and f
suggest that the time is ripe for The claims of muste and a sup- establishing in the minds of young porter in Mr. R. Roydon Richards,
Head of Glasgow Academy. eople the authority of God."
The Benedictine Head of Ample- Mr. Hugh Lyah, Head of Rugby, forth says I believe that the ob- says that he never fails to be thank- jeet of our schools is to produce good ful "for the privilege of living with and able men to serve God and their and trying to befriend that bowlider- country. That cannot be done with- ing. exasperating and fascinating t out religion."
creature, the liuman boy,"
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THE LOVE DEATH
CHAPTER TWELVE
SPENT with fatigue, Friar John staggered across the, threshold of Friar Laurence's cell and blurted out the Ill-fated happeninga of his
Journey.
Juliet
·GERTRUDE GELBIN
dashing rocks thy sen-sick, bark!"
weary
He raised the vial to his lips. "Here's to my love!" he toasted, and drank.
A burning fury consumed his throat. “Oh true apothecary," he gasped. "Thy
He sank downs are quick"
beside the bler, hils head resting against it near Jullet's hand. With a inst effort, he brushed her hand with his lips.
Friar Laurence paced his cell in
"Thus with a kis-I die" he Agitation, "Who bore my letter then murmured and fell back. to Romeo?" he cried at.last.
Through the allent churchyard
"Saint Francis be iny speed!" he prayed. He stopped short as his cars caught the sound of human breathing.
"I could not send," Friar John ex-burried the cowled figure of Friar plained, "nor get a messenger
Laurence, to bring it back to thee--so fearful were they
of infection." "Unhappy fortune!" sighed Friur Laurence.
"I must to the monu- ment, Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake. She will beshrew me inuch that Romeo had no notice of these aceldents. I will write again to Mantua. And keep her at my cell till Romeo come.”
And so saying, he reached for his lantern and departed for the Tomb of the Capulets.
"Who's there?” he called:
Balthasar, Romeo's servant, crept out of the darkness.
"A friend," answered Balthasar, "and one that knows you well."
"Bliss upon you," cried Friar Lau- rence as he recognized him: "Tell me, good friend, what torch is yon that vainly lends its ilght. As I dis- But another had preceded bimtern it. It burneth in the Capel's there, and still a third was on his monument."
way,
"It doth so, holy air; and there's
believing his ears.
"Who is It?" asked Laurence not
"Romeo."
Romeo? So Romeo had come! Whất great good fortune! What excellent
Paris, bitter with grief, stood at my master, one that you love." the door of the tomb, his page boy In attendance. This was to have been his wedding night. A mad de- sire seized him. Death had stolen his bride--but even death could not prevent his spending this night in Inte! Some unknown power must her presence! Acting upon this wild have opprised him that he should be impulse, he motioned the boy away, it the Capulet's tomb at this very und. forcing the door of the tomb, hour! entered it.
And, hard on to the cypress-laden hills where stood the burlat ground pressed Romeo, Balthasar, his ser- vant, behind. At last he reached the very hi he sought. He bude Balthasar to depart and not remain under penalty of death. He then hurried to the Capulel's monument Alone, and hurling his weight against the door, forced his entrance.
"Go with me to the vault," said Laurence jubilantly, I dare not sir." answered Balthasar. "My mas- ter knows not that I am not gone with death if I did stay to look upon hence. He fearfully did menace me
his intents."
A sudden fear clutched the Friar's heart. "Stay then," he said. "I'll go alone," and sped to the tomb.
"Romeo!" he called, and even as "Thus I-enforce thy rotten Jaws his voice-sounded through the vault, to open," Romeo cried as he pushed his eyes fell upon the blood which Into the tomb. "In despite I'll cram Romeo had shed when Farls died. thee with more food."
"Alack, olack," called the Friar. voice answered from the "What blood is this? What mean shindows. "Stop thy unhallowed toil, these masterless and gory swords to vile Montague!" It: called.
discoloured by this place Romeo wheeled in surprise
and found. himself face to face with Paris.
do
Paris took a menacing step for- word. "Condemned villain! I apprehend thee. Obey and go with me for thou must die."
""I must indeed," replied Romeo, and therefore come 1 hither. beseech thee, youth, put not another sin upon my hend by urging me to fury, His volce
deepened, "Stay not. he besse earnestly, "Be gone. Live. And hereafter say madman's mercy bade thee run."
Paris drew his rapier in
answer.
peace?"
of
He entered the tomb and saw, too soon, the body of Paris. Ilia hasty glance followed to Juliet's bler, with Romeo, dend, beside it.
His eyes trembled with tears. “Ah, what an unkind hour is guilty of this lamentable chance!"
As he spoke, Jullet awakened and smiled into his face."
"O, comfortable Friar," she mur mured. "Where is my lord? I do remember well where I should be is my and there am I. Where Ronco?
Friar Laurence brushed away his
"I do defy thy conjurations," he tears with his hand. "Lady", he nn- cried and look position for a duel. swered brokenly, "come from this Romca's-sword clashed-against-his nest of death, contagion-and-un-- and found its way to Paris' heart. natural sleep. A greater power than thou be merciful," Paris whis-we can contradict hath thwarted our pered, as
as he fell to the ground, "lay Intents, Come, come away." me with Jullet."
"will," Romeo promised. "Mer-
cutio's kinsman, noble Count Paris,
on
She blanched with fright.
He pointed sadly to the inert figure pall.
Thy husband there lies dead."
the ground beside her
one writ with me in sour misfor tune's book. I'll bury thee in a Juliet's eyes slowly followed his triumphant grave. A grave? Oh no.esture and found nt last her
A lantern, slaughtered youth. For Romeo.
here lies Juliet,
and her beauty
"Stay
not to question," pleaded Friar Laurence." "The watch is com- good Juliet. I dare no
makes this vault a fensting presenceing. Comm.."
full of light."
He picked up the body of Parts longer and carried it to a nearby bier, thened dully. "I will not away."
"Go, get thee hence," she answer- drawing the dead man's cloak over
his face, moved slowly on to the} The Friar made one more pleud- velvet pall upon which Juliet lay, ng effort, and then, helpless and
He looked long into her beautiful, despairing, ran from the tomb.. stil! face.
Juliet looked down upon her lord,
"Oh my love, my wife!" he wept her guze resting at last on the visi at last. "Death, that hath suck'd in his lifeless hand. She seized, it the honey of ty breath, hath had eagerly, then saw that it was empty. no power yet
"Oh churl," she chided. "Drunk upon thy beauty. Thou are not conquered. Beauty's all. And left no friendly drop to ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and help me after? I will kiss thy lips; in thy cheeks. And death's pale haply some poison yet doth harg
flag is not advanced there,
He bent over her. "Ah dear Juliet,
on them."
She kissed him long
"Thy lips are warm," she wept,
I still will stay with thee and never from this palace of dim night depart A noise from without warned her again, Here will I set up my ever-that the watch had already arrived. lasting rest and shake the yoke of In an instant the alarm would be inauspicious stars from this world-spread that the Capulet Tomb had wearfed flesh."
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He gazed at her for a fust ume."
“She cried, "then “Eyes, look your last!" he whispered. I'll be brief. Oh happy danger!" She He lay his hend upon her breast, seized Romeo's dagger. "This is thy This arms encircling her,
sheath," she whispered and pointed "Arms, take your last embrace! it to her heart. She thrust it deeply And lips, O you the doors of breath, through her breast. "There. Rust. seal with a righteous kiss a dateless And let me die." bargain to engrossing death!”
And
as the cries of the right He kissed her tenderly.
guard sounded the alarm of his fear- Then, reaching Into his pouch, ful discovery, Juliet aanic to the floor half. drew forth the vill of powder mixed and fell across the body of her with water.
Romeo.
"Come bitter conduct," he cried. Death had united the lovers for-. "Come, unsavory guide! Thou des-ever beyond parting. perate pilot, now at once run on the
THE END
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