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THE

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METHODS

BRITAIN AND THE CONTINENT

GAINS AND LOSSES

The Oxford correspondent of the "Morning Post" (London) wrote on November 1:

Sir Michael Sadler, Master: of

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CURATE AS THE CO-

RESPONDENT

SURGEON'S UNHAPPY MARRIAGE

JUDGE ON A ‘WILD ASSOCIATION"

In the Divorce Court, London, be- the hearing was concluded of the fore the President, Lord Merrivale,

petition by Mr. William Moir University College, speaking last Thorne-road. Doncaster, for the

Webster Shepherd, a surgeon,

of night to the Charles Fox Associa-dissolution of his marriage with tion here on "Public Schools and the State," said that Mr. Bernard herd, on the ground of her alleged Mrs. Constance Emmeline Shep- Shaw and others had recently ex-adultery with the Rev. Thomas pressed views implying that it was Bertram Powell, useless to look for individual initia-|

formerly senior tive in the English Public Schools..

"The experience of most people

curate at Doncaster Parish Church, The allegations were denied by

here," said Sir Michael, is that both Mrs. Shepherd and Mr. the intellectual elite of the Univer-1 Powell.

sity, with some exceptions, are men Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd were who have been scholars at the married in 1920, and there were Public Schools. But all of us who two children. Lord Merrivale, have to examine for college en-granting a decreu nisi and the trance examinations know that a custody of the children to Mr. farge number of boys who come up Shepherd, said that the parties were from the Public Schools, although married in 1920. For a year they they are excellent fellows and have were very happy together. But ap- good judgment, yet are mere babies parently just before the second in the expression of their ideas on child was born, in 1922, the rela paper."

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By 1928, aald Lord Merrivale the

on increasing year by year, and by tained by the German Gymnasium 1925 a state of things was reached and the best of the French Lycees, which involved very great misery. yet, on the other hand, the English boy had learned much which the German and the French boy had perhaps not had time to learn..

Less Criticism To-day

parties were in such relations that negotiations for the wife went home, and after a separation by jagreement, as a result of inquiries which the husband had made, the

"I think that, on the whole, there present suit was filed for a dissolu-

is less criticism of our Publiction of marriage on the ground that Schools now than at any time with- Mrs. Shepherd had committed in my memory, he said.

"My im adultery with Mr. Powell. pression is that, although boys at "To add to the gravity of the Public Schools care very much case," his Lordship continued, "tho about athletics, their interest in co-respondent, a Clerk in Holy athletics is less absorbing than it Orders, was at the material times was twenty years ago, in spite of holding duties in that capacity, at the fuct that the newspapers give one time in Doncaster and at an- so much attention to Public School other time in Paris. The respon sport.

dent at the present time apparently "Great changes were brought in is about 35, the petitioner about English Public Schools in the past 40, and the co-respondent about 36. through the pressure of public eriticism, and the change was made in cach case by the self-sacrificing effort of a hendmuster of genius.

"It would be less easy to-day for a headmaster of geaius to work out his ideas than it was twenty years ago, because the schools have be come so costly to run that it is.

Husband's Remonstrances

curate at Doncaster, and he be "in 1927 the co-respondent was a

er's house. What is sald is that came introduced Into the petition-

that time the respondent conceived from the very commencement of

a guilty attachment for the co

dangerous to risk losing a large at. respondent, and it rapidly

tendance of boys."

developed; that be Was con- Too little attention was given, hestantly at the house; and that on thought, when engaging assistant Occasions there was conduct on her masters for Public Schools, to as part with regard to him which,

certaining whether they had any when it comes to be examined, strong intellectual interest and manifests an improper attitude on whether they were capable of keep-

her part towards the co-respon ing order in a class, and had any

[dent." notion of teaching. If England be Lord Merrivale said that the hus- came more closely connected with band had remonstrated about the the international affairs of the association with Mr. Powell, and Continent there would be a demand had asked whether he was always for a system of teaching modern to have that man dragging at his languages in English schools as heels. He made inquiries among the yobd as that wblch existed in many servants, and they informed him countries of the Continent.

that the relations between the respondent and the co-respondent in the marital home had been of "The Morning Post" publishes such a kind that it was almost in- the following comments:

evitable to assume that there was

Press Opinion

It has long been the fashion an adulterous intimacy between jamong our intelligentala to poke them.

fun at the English public school system. Only recently Mr. Bernard box and on oath had declared in- Each had gone Into the witness Shaw made the discovery-fornocence of adultery. about the tenth time in his career

that our public schools are quite

"What I really have to determine

out of date because they "suppress is whether this association, to individual initiative." One cannot which the co-respondent gave him- help thinking, on occasions, that self up day after day, week after Mr. Shaw would have profited con-week, evening after evening-gave faiderably had he been subjected as himself to the wild association with In youth to a little more suppression, married woman, living on terma

but that is

a matter of opinion. of bittor hostility with her husband Meanwhile, critics come and pass, was a guilty association. while the public schools stand four- "Whether adultery took place on aquare against all attacks. Why? a particular occasion is. not the Sir Michael Sadler, in an address question, but it was an improper at Oxford last night before the and wrongful and guilty associa- Charles Fox Association, admitted tion, and it developed." that many boys who came up to the The President said that he could University from public schools wore come to no other conclusion than "mere babies in the expression of that the relationship between these their ideas on paper," yet they were partics was a guilty relationship, all "excellent follows" and possess and be granted Mr. Shepherd a de

ed the saving merit of "good judg-ereo nisi (as stated), with costs and ment." These are not bad credenthe custody of the children." tials for a boy setting out on life'a highroad and in this instance they

do not stand alone.

Fashioning Character

The strength of the English Public School system lies in the opportunity which it gives for fashioning character. Each school] is a microcosm of the greater world without, and from an early age cach member of this microcosm learns the lesson of subjugating his per sonal desires and aspirations in the Interests of the social naclous which he finds himself, At an age when other children are still tied to the family apron-strings, he be comes a member of a society with 's corporate life, with cherished traditions, and, with codes of con- duct and taste which shape bis.out. look and fit him for proper advance ment in the greater world if he has proved worthy in the lesser. En- couraged to organise and adminis- ter school discipling, he begins to learn the art of government even aches the highest form. most unconsciously saaumes

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