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TUESDAY

TOBER 25, 1992.

School Examination

"Lottery"

System That Inflicts Gross Unfairness

gime roused in him such keen regrets as the vanishing from his sight of the "Tufted Trees," The poet did not live to see the victorious Royalists again ex- pelled; but the tree remained) while more than onorevolution! passed over England. For a long. time it may have seemed that,| whatsoever King might reign, the elm would still, be standing beside Milton's cottage And even when the greatest revolution of all had begun, when the face of England was changed in the hame of utility, and the beauty of a tree standing idly in the fields was not enough to save it if it interfered with the cultiva tion of the soil, or the production

How does this happen? Simpl of wealth-even after this the elm put on its "Russling Leaves" more than 40,000 boys and girls because the regulations provide that in order to obtain a certificate every spring for over a hundred will be waiting anxiously for the

the five subjects must be distribut- years. Now at last the insistence results of the July examinations ed among the three groups, English of a busy and efficient modern Parents are also anxious, because subjects, languages, mathematics world has been too strong and it frequently happens that the post and science.

"The rude Ax with heaved

SOLUTION OUTLINED

During the next week or twe

Obvious injustics,

Candidate No. 1,194 failed, be-

stroke" has done its ruthless which they hope that their son will work. But the stump still stands, secure la dependent on his success. Let it long remain, a memorial in obtaining a school certificate.cause he did not pass in a foreign to the enduring strength alike of writes Stephen Foot in the Daily language, while No. 1,765 falled to-

a great mind and of an ancient tree, and a reminder to all those who "Post o're Land and Ocean without rest" of the words of blind poet: They also serve who only stand and waite."

News In Brief.

Telegraph.

The examination system, in fact, now plays such an important part in English life what we are in dan- zer part in English life that we are in danger of becoming its slaves instead of its masters. It is as well, therefore, from time to "The Y's Men's Club will hold their time, for the public to examine the weekdy meeting at Messrs. Lane, examiners with critical eye, and Crawford's Restaurant on Thursday, make sure that they are leading us at 1 p.m.

The speaker will be Miss in the right direction. F. C. Woo, M.B.E., Headmistress of the St. Paul's Girls' College.

and boys.

pase in mathematics.

Such regulations, however, are responsible for Inflicting obvious injustice on boys of out- standing ability by fabelling them as fallures; their fault is that they are a little bit.different from the common mould.

The solution of the problem is. not very difficult, and the authorf ties have no excuse for their inac tion, as the suggestion appeared. two or three years ago in the "Journal of Education." All that And now I am going to be bold is necessary is that every candi enough. to begin by saying that I date who waters for the certificate approve of examinations; that on examination should receive a certi- While the Yaumati ferry launch, the whole, they serve a useful parcate, and on the back would be Man Fat was proceeding on pose, and that I believe that we recorded the standard he had steel shares journey from Hong Kong to Sham should be worse off without them. reached in each subject. The China Mail.ging in Bethlehem

on the New York Stock Exchange, Shui Po yesterday, an unknown So long as human nature remains

To maintain the purpose of the- all these consequences must be Chinese male passenger jumped weak, examinations will be needed

to test the work of both masters examination as a test of general Hong Kong, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1932 accepted as the price paid for the overboard and was not seen again.

education, candidates might still new knowledge. Undoubtedly it

be compelled to take at least five- is humiliating, for we have a long Charged with the possession of 99

Getting a "Credit"

subjects drawn from the three- Salute To Spiders.

way to go before we know how counterfeit Hong Kong ten cent to adopt and use filament, and

pieces, with intent to "utter"? But the test must be a fair one groups, and the performance - in Scotland, if history is to be there will be obvious dangers in them, Ll Chi. was found guilty in the there must be no cheating by the each yould be noted on the certif believed, would never have be- becoming dependent upon one Central Police Court before. Mr. candidate or by the examiner. cate. The fee of £2.5s charged at capricious and hard-hearted, spe- Wynne-Jones this morning, and When the result is announced, it present to each candidate should come the country it has if its cies of insect. After suffering sentenced to three months hard must represent what the boys has be amile to cover the cost of the leaders had been too proud to for centuries from comparison labour. learn from spiders. The free with the priggishly virtuous ant. lesson, that Bruce took, paid handsomely, and, if insects ad- We now have to recognise that insects are champions in the vertised like correspondence col-mechanical as well as in the leges, they could make out a fine moral sphere. It would make us story. Now, in 1982, the famous feel more kindly to the black- One case of diphtheria from Shau- patience of spiders, under every beetle, who is a champion at kiwan is the only notifiable disease sort of ill-treatment and abuse nothing, if there were not only shown on the return of the Medical is being vindicated. Like the too much reason to fear that Officer of Health for the 48 hours quiet man in the corner who some close observer will discover ending October 24. proves, in innumerable anecdotes, that its armament puts the best

to know best, the silent spider that men can do to shame. If

ness of

Personal Pars.

FOR CAR THEFT.

Smart Police Work Recovered Motor.

crawls away with the laureis in a boots and brooms and powders CHINESE CONVICTED field in which, for the last hun continue to the fore as expres- dred years or so; men have sions of the human attitude to been progressively boastful. The these efficient contemporaries of strength of steel, the clever mankind, these gestures are as

men in making it, sund the powerful bridges and much due to fear as to contempt, and the chief consolation' to be buildings they can erect with it drawn from entomology is hearty Smart work by the Taimshatsui all these are familiar thing relief that creatures formid Police led to the arrest of four Steel is, indeed, strong, as all

able and abundant seem happily youths ou "Friday" after a who have been in handcuffs will!

all at loggerheads among them that a car, belonging to Mr. John agree but there is something selves.

Cameron of the Green Island Cement Co. was missing:

Milton's Elm.

At Chalfont St. Giles in

report

At the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday the culprits were · charg- ed befora Mr. Butters. Mr

Cameron left his car near the Star

Theatre and found it missing when

Examiners Differ

accomplished by his own unaided extra clerical work. efforts. No one would sak for more than this, but we have the right to demand that no one should receive lesa..

י ,

Yet each year there are hun dreds of candidates who are treated with gross unfairness. and it is time that somebody took up the cudgele on their behalf. In the Oxford and Cambridge School Certificate examination

The second point that needs con alderation in whether the examina- tron is in ct a test."

A receit experiment conduct-- ed by the Durham University Examinatan Board suggests that the damination in English is much more like a lottery, In this expriment the whole of

English:

there are in each subject three the school certificate grades, "Fall," "Pass," "Credit."

papers from ope school (forty--- and in order to secure a certificate eight candidies) were marked: it is necessary to pass in at least separately by seven examiners.. five subjects. Here is the record These" examinea were specially of candidate No. 1,194 in the selected for thraxperience and examination held in December of trustworthiness, while they were: last year. He secured a credit in asked to be parcularly careful as to the class in which each candf- no less than seevn subjects:

date was place the grading be ing "fall,"

"pa," "credit," "dis- tinction."

The results ofthia experiment were staggering their unexpec- tedness. Indeed, is doubtful-L- there would has been greater magnificent par divergence in theresults, if the

English,

History, Geography,

Elementary mathematics, Additional mathematics, Physics, Chemistry.

What

Labelled Fattures.

Examiner Aaye credit a distinction to 81ut of the candidates

vastly stronger, and it is the fila ment with which spiders spin their webs. Professor Inglis, an- thoritatively seated in the Chair of Mechanism and Applied Mech- anies at Cambridge, has just de Buckinghamshire there has just clared that spider's. filament has been felled a 500-years-old elm a tensile strength of 560 tons to under the shade of which Milton he went back at about 9.15 p.m.formance: how proud his parents names had been led out of a

elsted of an Engla essay and the square inch, eight times as is said to have rested. The elm Police officers detalled to search must have been a school certifi- hat. In the first pier, which con-

precis, great as that of steel. Gone are had become dangerous, and it was caught the joy-riders within half cate with seven credits!

an hour of the reports/ now the days for lofty pity of decided though only after a long

On the contrary, he was, laball-1 the fly that is caught in such a dispute between its enemies and The frat defendant, Kylan Lin, of Rangoon said to be the leader prison, compared with which iron its defenders that the tree of the gang, said the car was given ed as a compiste failure; bars are indeed no cage And should be cut down and the stump to him by a man named Ab Yes not get a certificate at alll

andalism, preserved as a memorial: to the gone, too, the ignorant

fins of the names of

of the suCCERAMI His Worship imposed a f and poet. There are many memorials $100 on me months on the frat dates appeared in the i that sweeps, from the

abitations to Milton, but none could be more defendant, in addition to $5 for was not among them that is why the fitting than this. He is a poet driving a car without lights, while I cannot tell you his game. – The best things in the room, master whom we are sometimes apt to the fourth was fined $10 for alding names of many of his friends were pieces of construction, delicate think of as concerned only with and abetting. The other two were there, even though they had only in their beauty of design, but, as affairs of State, with high theo discharged

got a bare pass in four subjects. Candidate X was yen 28 per is now revealed, of massive logical things, and with the cinsh

but our cont. of, marka by e examiner and credit, in f friend with seven credits had and 80 per cent by other.Ac strength. The Cambridge proof Heaven and Hell Yet he lived fessor who is strongly pro- for many years near the Chiltern spider in, the best traditions of Hills, and loved, as we can guess lips, to walk By disinterested science, and in spite from his own lips, of the obvious danger of finding Hedge-row Elms, on Hillocks himself superseded as an expon- een, ar

・that:

passages of human

cobwebs that are

ent of applied mechanics by the a

Firat able spider

predilection for!

dangled,

balt

brid Dover,

Examiner Bve only credits his

Examiner Cga 20-credits

and

Examiner gay

ROBBER SUSPECTS nothing to show for his efforts cording to two example ho had

COMMITTED.

Captured By Three British Soldiers.

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the Central "committe

he had failed to get a certificate.failed, three judged worth

credit, Lile one gaviím a spe- Herd candidate No 1,755. dal dist He got credits In English, History, Latin, French, German, and also passed in the oral test for both gave French and German:

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