1931-08-08 — Page 7

SATURDAY, AUGUST. 8, 1931.

RAFFLES COLLEGE THROUGH AN ARCHITECT'S EYES

BUILDING WHICH HAS, CAPTURED THE GLAMOUR & PAGEANTRY OF THE EAST.

The following article on Raffes that of the Principal occupying the College by Mr. Brain B. Lewis central position. The houses adopt appeared originally In The Archi-the common plan of the tropica in tect and Building News and was having the kitchens and servants Illustrated with photographs.

The writer obviously admires the only connected to the house by a quarters in a separate building, and building he describes but is a trifle covered service way. Each house untattering when he describes has its own tearis court, the gar- Singapore as "ernramed with all the ages are grouped together in a sweepings of the world's cross-building at the foot of the hill with

roads."

The fertility of Malaya hay allowed its people to devote their energies to the gentlemanly pur- suits of love, war and piracy, and the hard labour necessary for solid building has proved so distasteful that Malay architectural tradition

is of slight importance.

the syces' quarters above them.

Following the usual Singapore practice, the College is built of brick with coment plaster finish, The wails are solid as no cavity is possible owing to the enterprise of snakes, rats and other vermin. The architects intended the roof to be found to be too costly, and import- tiles, but these were

ed Marseilles tiles were used in their place. Windows are general ly unglazed and are protected by

of Roman

In 1819 the port of Singapore was founded by Stamford Raffles, and since then civilisation has crammed it with all the sweepings of the world's cross-roads. To-day Chin- jalousies..

THE PROGRESS OF

"SCIENCE.

Earthquakes and Volcanoes.

THE CHINA MAIL.

rocks of the globe, it is now re- BRITAIN AVENGES THE

cognised that they have been formed in all the geological ages, and that they play a part of pri- mary importance in the crust of the earth. Geological history be gan with the formation of a solid crust on the surface of the fluid magma, the crust consisting of the lighter parts of the fused

mass.

CONQUEST.

Blue Blood Goes Back to Normandy.

THREE-FOOT PEDIGREES.

NEW GEOLOGICAL IDEAS. The recent mild earthquake in of the firmament condensed, this country set most of us think making an ocean without shores. William the Bastard, Duke of

On this crust the waters ing about the instability of the As new parts of the magma be Normandy,

Nine centuries ago was born: crust of our globe (says a cor- came solid granitic crystallisa. queror and King of Britain.

who became Con- Earthquakes, we learn, are hap- loss of volume, formed super-ate descent from William's con- respondent in a Home paper). tion, accompanied by a notable Those who trace their ligitim- pening almost constantly, most ficial wrinkles and folds, the nering army recently erlebrated of them local and insignificant, summits and the depths of which the occasion. world. Geologists tell us that that an alternating rise and fall leaning on his great sword by some reverberating round the were in unstable equilibrium, so

1 can see Norman William their most probable cause is some took place. The creats of the Falaise Keep, a grim smile on his settlement of part of the crust of Folds were in a cooler tempera- face as he roar out his famous the earth into a position of great- ture, and, as their crystallisation oath, "By the splendour of God!" er mechanical stability. But why and increase in density took place should there be faults in rocks they tended to sink, exerting at its soul. And as I set in a little uncovered by the seas

This is a town which has kept depths of the oceans, and why on the hotter and more liquid my wine and the Norman pea- or in the the same time a lateral pressure estaminet, with the sunlight in should land and water, sea and magma in the pits of the folds. santa drowsing in their doorways, globe, be in unstable equilibrium? the conditions then being re- of hoofs on the cobbles, and I ex- continent, the sculpturing of the The crests sank, and the pits rose, I can hear once again the clatter of the Lyons Museum, in an ad-

Dr. Claude Gaillard, Director versed in the two areas. The pect upright steel and gay pen- dress given to the Academy of ment continually increased until hill, writes & Daily Express range of the up-and-down move-noons to come flaunting down the, Sciences at Lyons last April, re- viewed past and current theories above the surface of the primi- mandy. of the crust of the earth and its tive ocean, when the well-known But William would not recog- the successive crests reached Special Correspondent from Nor- movements, and proposed a rela- processes of denudation compli- nise this army. tively simple explanation. the one hand he rejects the older depositing sedimentary rocks in of pedigree.

Oncated the simple recurrences by Down the hill comes a battalion idea that the earth is contracting the depressions.

First two British

mere fluid interior. On the other ence for his theory from actual variously for Ascot or the gulf as it cools and that its crust is, pursues his argument into tech-Americans, with 120

Dr. Gaillard women in bright pink; then 120 therefore, wrinkling over the nical details and derives evid- then a few score Britona dressed cameras;

of a university. A site was selectten in number, no less. They are

Here are new Commandments, ficial evidence

hand, he finds little but super-observations made by himself and links. Then a boy on a bicycle. ed and money raised by private gift called the Commandments of In-floating like icebergs on the den- the almost-paradoxical general-out of the windows. Obviously

view that the continents are parts of the world. He reaches

for Wegener's by other geologists in many Then a French general. and public grant, and in 1923 a dustry and were found posted Up-ser-but-more-fluid deeper layer of isation that every chain of moun- the mad Britons are making competition was held for the prof a large Canadian factory. They the crust. Put in the shortest tains was at one time the sent Whoopee: we must help,

The population of Falaise looks ject, named Rafles College, after read thus: the founder of the city. Tlie, win-

1-Don't lie. It wastes my time way, his theory is that gravity of a depression. * ning design was that of Mosers.

and yours. I am sure to catch the active agents.

and changes of temperature are Cyril Farey and Graham Dawbarn. Mr. Dawbarn visited Singapore in

you in the end. 1924 and Mr. Farey inspected the)

2--Watch your work, not the due chiefly, if not wholly, to the are

The creases in the crust are

It is well known that volcanoes works in progress, in 1926. The

elock. A long day's work

important change

most abundant along the working drawings were prepared

makes a long day short, and a

The in volume shores of continens and are sel- by Mr. Dawharn in his office in

short day's work makes my material crystallizes. The huge the great land masses. A favour which takes place when granitic dom to be found in the middle of consultation with Mr. Farey. The 3-Give me more than I expect, all geologists in mountain chains bution is that percolating water

face long...

tangential thrusts recognised by ite theory to explain this distri- firm of Swan und Maclaren, of Singapore, have supervised the con-

and I will give you more than atruction.

you expect.

the consequences, not, as and gases under pressure are the increase your pay if you inthe creases. The horizontal pres- crease my profits. 4--You owe so much to yourself sures in the lithosphere are sim- ply the expression of the weight of the matter in its effort to flat ten the creases,

ese shophouses jostle Indian tom- Raffles College has freshness and ples, and a stucco Gothic cathedrala wealth of original detail, and, looks out across the sixty miles of with its broad white walls, its deep water to the equator. In this shadows and its domes, has captur- architectural chaos a modern build-ed the glamour and pageantry of lag need not pay strict attention to the East. any local style. ·.

To commemorate the city'e cen- THE TEN NEW COMMANDMENTS.

tenary it was proposed to found an academy with all the usual facilities

The Site.

The site of Railles College is some three miles from the centre of the city, adjoining the pleasant Botani- en! Gardens and fronting Bukit Timah Road-the great main rond of the island connecting Singapore with the Mulay Staten by the cause- way across the Johore Straits.

The site near the road is flat but rises to a hill, and the main school huildings are grouped about two courts on a spur running at right- ungles to the road.

The foremost building ie the ad- ministrative block, placed directly opposite the main entrance.. It has

a simple, porte-cochere, and on the ground floor are those low, wide urches which are so typical of the scheme. The entrance hall has the administrative offices grouped about. it and a broad flight of steps ascends to the level of the lower court and continuca to the great hall on the floor, above, The hall looks vastly cool beneath Ita high barrel vault and is surrounded by gallery with a most delightful and simple balustrade. It is to be re- gretted that the authorities have marred the climax of the composi- tior oy hanging two large poftraile in a most unhappy position on the end wall.

are

Volcanoes;

The riotous cries come nearer. "Vive Guillaume le Conquer- unt! Vive le Maire d'Astings,"

Mayor of Hastings

roar the natives.

salutes.

the Companions of William the over to Falaise to witness the un- Then I see it all. These are Conqueror, and they have come

I can afford to used to be thought, the cause of causes of eruptions. Dr. Gaillal veiling of a tablet on which are;

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you cannot afford to owe any body else. Keep out of debt or keep out of my factory. 5-Dishonesty is never an accì- dent, Good men, like good women, never see temptation when they meet it. 6Mind your own business, and

Formation of Granites. Wherever geology shows the presence of ancient or recent mountain-building forces there

are enormous masses of granite.

i

of all

cites the recent work of Brun William's knights who fought at

names engraved the against that explanation. The Hastings (1066). Swiss geologist has studied the gases and lavas emanating from from Britain, France, Canada, Every member of that party- volcanoes bordering the Indian, New Zealand, and the United Pacific, and Atlantic oceans and States can trace his descent the Mediterranean and has come back to William or one of his to the conclusions that the aque marauding chieftains. ous theory of volcanic action is

wrong, all that has been written been checking pedigrees. Thou- For two years experts have about the supposed relation of

in time you'll have a business What happened when these crys-volcanic action to steam being sands were found wanting.

of your own to mind. 7-Don't do anything that hurts your self-respect. An em- ployee who is willing to steal for me is willing to steal from

me,

tallised out of the amorphous magma? Dr. Gaillard goes back false.

that

Christian men and women had to experiments made over a cen- Dr Gallaird believes

had, to be told politely that tury ago by Gregory Watt, de- his theory of mountain-building of ancestors the slight indiscre

though they came of a long line scribed in the Philosophical Tran- forces is sufficient to account for tion of an elder son on the eve of 3-It is none of my business of London. The British observer thickening of the crust of the the Battle of Crecy had ruined

Bactions of the Royal Society the distribution volcanoes.

The what you do at night, but if melted a large mass of basalt in earth under the continental areas the look of the family tree. dissipation affects you next day, and you do half as slowly, and ascertained that, as the zones

the a furnace, allowed it to crystallise e greatest in the zones outside. Many of the invadera have

of fusion:

brought pedigrees with them on much as I demand, you'll last crystallisation took place the under the highest areas of the Many of the women carry their Thus, three-feet lengths of parchment. hält as long as you hoped. 9-Don't tell me what I'd like to

density increased and the volume continents there is formed a kind contracted. Four years ago Proof cap of granite, the thickness family crests and banderoles in hear, but what I ought to fessor Lacroix, in a communica- of which decreases from the cen-

miniature in their bosom. hear. I don't want a valet to

tion to the Academy in Paris. tre towards the circumstance.

Soaring Prices. my vanity, but one to my dɔstated that the density of a rock Where it is thick, it seals any At first the peasants here had crystallisation, and in a letter wards the circumference, along could not question the Norman increased in proportion to its possible volcanic vents; but to-gasped. Then they acted. They written to Gaillard in December the ocean shores, it is not strong blood, but simple faith. Prices last year the same authority laid enough to prevent pressure from dared to treble. down the general proposition forcing the molten

magma In the shops you can buy that magmas contract and in- through the crust.

William the Conqueror bath crease in density in their passage from the vitreous to the crystal-

mats, and you can have a William

line state.

the Conqueror beer. Granites were at one time sup posed to be the most ancient

-bed mort eta,

·lars.

10-Don't kick if I kick. If you are worth while correcting, you are worth while keeping. I don't waste time taking specks out of rotten apples.

The very mention of 'telephones Behind the administrative block always seems to create a good deal lies the tower-court with the of feeling.-The Minister of Trans- science building on the opposite port.

side. The other two sides are now enclosed by an arcaded passage, but at a later date will be occupied by the arts and engineering blocks."~ The Science Block.

The science building separates the lower and upper courts, and is perhaps the most interesting unit, with its two domed pavilions, hous- ing the lecture rooms, and its fantastic fleche discharging the 'la- boratory fumes. On the side fac- ing the lower court, the eaves aro supported by a succession of shaped wooden brackets admitting ventila- tion to the upper portions of the laboratories,

On passing through the science block there is a still further rise to the upper court, surrounded by tho atudents' hotels, each planned to Accommodate 60 students.It must be remainbered that the studenta will be from the various races of the Malay States-Indian, Chinese and Malay. At present these are housed together, but on completion of the third hostel it is probable that separate accommodation will be provided for each sect, This Is peculiarly important owing to the diversity of diet demanded by the various religions, and the conso quent complication in the kitchen The sleeping quarters consist of dorinitories occupying the full width of the hostel, and Its own lavatory accor The dormitories are divide cubicles and above the partitions constant croad draught la sured. Eashtcublelo

portion theStuden

Good manners and good busi- ness have qufle a lot to do with one another-Mr. Clough Williams Ellis. ¡T80E 2 YTHAM SHON D40

RESTAURANTS ON WHEELS.

trange as it may seem, good housekeeping is one of the prime essentials of modern rail" roading. Mr. Traveller has become 1o used to strolling through the traid to the dining car, for his needs in the way of food for him- self as well as for Mrs. Traveller.. and all the little Travellers, that he hardly gives a thought to how he gets a first class hotel ment, while whirling along at 60 miles an hour. The answer, like with about 1,200 highly trained employees of the Canadian Pacifio Raliway, serving In some 150 dining and, cafe care, from Atlantic to Pacific, and with

·'an'organization in stores and farma? throughout the country which places high class foodstuffs in tăn”. chafa cupboards and refrigeratorias The systige number retmenli served in a your is approximately 2,000,000. As to quantition, wuties Nga Bay that the include nearly..

800,000+ 16 of various ROERA 1,000,000 16 of ten and cuffee and some: 100,000-quarte of milk and tream. The Pictures show meals being served in typicalOPR (diser sad typer of the ata of chefi and walters employed int

Into-2004

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But now, the Companions of William have marched past the statue of the Conqueror. Some- where a band strikes up: "Oh, Charlie, take it away.'

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In we go to the Hotel de Ville,: where we have a banquet in true Norman fashion. My waiter stands at the head of my table;: lina voice reminiscent of Wil- lin's "Shoot upwards, Norman archers." he bellows: "Every one keep his knife and fork. We | have' run 'out," ka

It is twilight Straight up there amid the trees, stands the old castle and the river is sing- ing..

And in the square the Con- queror's spear points stark against the evening sky, straight at a notice announcing William the Conqueror bathing costumes. I can see Norman William leaning on his great, sword, a grim smile on his face, as he roars but his famous oath: "By the spendour of God!” “

Physiciana have listened too, much to the clamour of birth con trol, and too little, to the rather less popular appeal of "birth re- lof.Dr. G. W. Kosmak.

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