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FAILURE MARKINGS, the same type of English, and an

AN INJUSTICE.

Too Much Guesswork: Age of Definiteness.

OPINION REQUIRED.

to

The most serious injustice done by teachers, according N. D. Showalter, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, speaking before teachers and school administrators in session recently at Washington State College, is the blind marking of students as failures without

realising the consequences of such branding.

analysis of the Prince of Wales's pronunciation gives evidence of a very particular change. '

"Yet the social environment and

the outlook on life of the King and the Prince are the same, The pronunciation of the Prince la that

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THE SEVENTH EXTRA RACE of a young man, and the King and PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS MEETING will be hold Queen talk a perfectly different of the Sale by Public Auction type of English. That is an indica- to be held

(weather permitting) at Happy tion of change."

on MONDAY, the

Valley on SATURDAY, 27th Sep- 29th day of Septembor; 1930, 'at Mr. Blandford concluded with a p.m., at the Ofices little dig at the English of Ameri- Public

of the tember, 1930, commencing at 2 cans.

Works Department,

by m Order of His Excellency the Gov- ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land at

Lal Chi Kok in the Colony of Hong Kong. for a term 'of .75

years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of

renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 24 years less three days.

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"Standard English," he said, "is the kind of English wo.would like to teach all foreigners like the Americans, but," he added "there is a tendency to get less 'nasalisa- tion' in America and more in Lon don."

"Guesswork in anything is ali right," he said, "when it hits the

Mr. Blandford said later that as mark, but it misses too often to be. millions of people heard the B.B.C.] reliable. We are living in an age

pronunciation it certainly made for o_definiteness of exact measure-standard-English- ment. Deliente instruments measure "I think the ideal accert is that time, heat, speed, altitude. No long which betrays neither er are we willing to accept opinion mother's birth place nor instead of fact.

father's income."

"Educational methods, however, have seemingly lagged. Each teach. er is still likely to fix his or her own standards of what normal children should accomplish in school. Some teachers still believe that it is to their credit to boast of the number of pupils, who have falled to puss courses which they teach.

"No tencher can justly brand a pupil a failure simply because he was not successful in mustering some aspect of learning.

"Education is entering the day of definiteness, however, Through re- search, we will find a better system measuring intellectual achievement. Curricula will be broad enough to enable the pupil to get all the training that he can possibly get.”

ACCENT AND THE MAN.

Standard English and Fruity Cockney.

your your

CHAIR OF GEOLOGY.

A NEW PROFESSOR AT CAMBRIDGE.

The electors to the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at Cam-. bridge elected Professor Owen Thomas Jones, M.A., F.R.S., of Trinity College, now Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at the Victoria University of Manchester, to succoed Professor J. E. Marr, of St. John's College, who will vacate the post on September 30. Pro- fessor Marr has occupied the Chair of Geology since 1917.

who

Was

Professor Jones, educated at Pencader Grammar School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, took first- class honours in both parts of the

Natural Sciences Tripos at Cam- bridge, where he also gained the Wiltshire

prize, the

Harkness prize, and the Sedgwick essay prize. He has been Professor of Geology at Manchester since 1910.

Mr. D. H. Beves, M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, has been appointed tutor of the col-

The value of a good accent as a social asset was discussed recent- ly by Mr. F. G. Blandford, the authority on pronunciation, lectur-lege. ing on Modern English Pronuncia- tion at the Cambridge University Local Lectures summer meeting, in the Arts School, Cambridge.

In England, said Mr. Blandford,

He took honours in the Classical Tripos, Part I, and the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos. He was a clerk in the

House of Commons from 1922 to 1924, when he returned to Cam-

'n social dialect was more definite-bridge as a Fellow of King's. He

ly marked than in a great many

other countries.

"In England it is regarded as a social disqualification if a person does not speak the type of English which we are now discussing. People regard good speech as good | manners. The principle in pro nunciation is to give the least shock to the least number.

Supposing you met a crossing- sweeper who unexpectedly spoke the same dialect as we are hearing now you would refer to him as being a very well-spoken man. Similarly. If a Prime Minister spoke like the average crossing. sweeper' you would call it a rough accent. There is an indication In, our attitude towards speech of the preference for one particular kind of speech as being in some curious way superior to other types.”

An

So desirable was it thought, In- deed, that the people who spoke a less desirable accent tried to alter it for the better. "On the whole," said Mr. Blandford, "women are more pliable in this way. assistant in a milliner's or dress maker's shop in London is a good example of a girl of humble origin who talks English perfectly to her customer, but when talking to her colleagues in the staff-room uses a very different English.

was appointed Dean in 1925, and is University Lecturer in Modern and Medieval Languages. He re- ceived his early education At Rugby School.

"WORK FOR WORK'S SAKE."

Educational Views of Glasgow Rector.

Dr.J. C. Scott, rector of Hutche- sons Grammar School, Glasgow, who presented the prizes at Carlisle Grammar School, expressed the opinion that hard work and hard play were essential for happy lives,'

Dr. Scott, who was a student at the school 40 years ago, said that he did not believe in such things as French without tears or learning made easy. He was an ardent dis- ciple of organised games in the making of character and men. As

a schoolmaster he had the delight of handling 40 Internationalists who had played for Scotland on the Rugby field.

Dr. Scott startled his audience by declaring that he did not think it mattered what pupils worked at while they were at school so long as it was not useful. He did not believe in the utilitarian idea of education.

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He had hoped that, Charles "Many maids talk standard Dickens would have killed English to their mistresses and that for ever in "Hard lapse into a fruity, cockney, im- Times." mediately they get back to the kitchen."

King's English and Prince's. Referring to the trend of modern English, Mr. Blandford said. "We are considering the King's English, and we are also considering the Prince of Wales's English. The King and the Prince do not talk

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It was a good thing to work at something for work's sake and to seek for something higher than the merely useful in education.

,,༩་ ་་ ་ He had grave doubts about voca. tional subjects in schools, and he believed strongly "stil In the classics--Latin to form the mind and Greek to fill it.

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