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Big Deeds Of A Little Man Czechoslovakia celebrated Dr. Benes's birthday on May 28 by staging an exhibition at Prague. It showed the many phases of hip activities both during and after the War.

"Here,"

Mr.

DONS AS SCHOOL "HEADS"

TEACHING COMES INTO ITS OWN

QUALIFICATIONS REVIEWED

(By Adam Fox)

Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford

HE new headmasters of Eton school experience. In the routine.

Tand Harros (not to spank of they are not well versed, nor in the

of a masters"

"Beans," as he was always known in in

circles Anglo-American Prague, has been in office con- tinuously as Foreign Minister since

young Mr. Wolfenden at Upping particular foibles 1918,

He has altered very little since ham) ure reported never to have common-room. But the routine is for the most part easily acquired, the days when he played football been schoolmasters before..

Not unnaturally a slight, moan and it is perhaps no great loss to against the Corinthians. He is

has already gone up from assistent be unconscious of the foibles. in 5ft 7in. in height, ten stone

The only thing that certainly masters, as they ask themselves weight a teetotaler and 2 non-

whether, after all, experience is to requires a special technique is the smoker.

disposition and distribution of the count for nothing. He still works 16 hours a day,

The matter is of some general work in class, the Time-Table as it At his first meeting with Baldwin in 1923, he was introduced interest, because if on joining the is called. But they do say that on said staff of a public school a man is not every staff there is some master by Lord Curzon. Lord Curzon, "is the little man welto expect a headmastership unless who burning to help the head- he can first contrive to be a Fellow master with this, or even to do it always send for when we're trouble, and, by Jove, he always gets of a College at Oxford or Cam-provisionally himself.

But if the don begins to look bridge, the prospects of this parti-

as a headmaster, ane cular branch of the teaching pro- promising

might inquire why a successful fession will be much diminished.

It will no longer attract the menjbarrister or a Civil Servant, or even The cellar book of Mr. J. Pier-most fitted for it, and the system a company promoter, might not be still more suitable. Indeed, in ex- pont Morgan is the subject of an will suffer accordingly.

of article in the årst number The question thus raised can bejceptional circumstances, he might

First. be, especially the Civil Servant. "Wine and Food," described as "a amplified into three parts.

The successful barrister or com→ gastronomical quarterly" and edit-what qualities does the headmaster ed by Mr. Andre Simon.

require? Secondly, how far does pany promoter would probably re- Mr. Morgan formed his wine col- the successful assistant master's fuse the job if offered. For one- the thing he would not find it financial- lection in 1906 on the advice. of a experience contribute towards

these qualities?ly attractive. And the right man Mr. Sherry, and had 20 copies of development of the cellar book privately printed. Thirdly, how far may the don ("the is, on the whole, more likely to be to have found among the dons, if he cannot At the time it was probably the mere don") be expected finest 'private cellar in the world. the necessary qualifications? men who (2) supply brains and But as Mr. Morgan is an abstem- Making An Impression organisation (managers, entre-jous man and does not entertain The

headmaster's duties preneurs, or undertakers, as they

on a large scale, it is feared that many and varied. But the

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be had from aftong the ranks of

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the assistant masters.

are

Caber-

Staff College For Headmasters

A successful headmaster from a

are quaintly called in this con-many of the wines must have tial qualities are a capacity for smaller school is in some cases an

Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 19, 1934. nection); (3) men who do rou-"died" undrunk.

tine work (clerks, mechanics, la bourers); and (4) the public,

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From The Tuileries

business, social case, even to the obvious alternative, but there are point of agility, and a flair for not enough of these to go round.

Yet there will always be one making an Impression in public. Economic Debunking, who buy or pay fees for the pro-

With these three a man can be great objection to appointing any- a school- duct (consumers).

The pick of the collection was! The most popular sport of the The obvious fact that one man the clarets, madeiras and brandies, pretty sure of success, and govern-one who has not been

From 1865 onwards Mr. Morgan ing bodies often have to be content master before. It is that such a with two of them. The first of appointment must always be specu day amongst the 'Intelligentsia' may often be concerned in more is what is popularly called 'de- than one capacity does frequent-had bottles, magnums, Jeroboame them enables the headmaster to lative. Who can be even moderate- the ly sure that a man can do a job bunking' the great ideals and ly lessen the chances of con-jand rehoboams of all the most

keep the finances straight; that is, flict, but is not important; nor is famous clarets such as Chateaux second enables him to deal with the which he has never yet attempted heroes of the past;

The responsibility that faces the reducing them to their lowest the fact that the product may be Marjaux, Lafite, Latour and Haut-parents; with the third he makes common denominator. In so far distributed in commodities in-Brion.

Sooner or later B There remains |

He possessed bottles of madiera the name of the school famillar, electora is thus greater than is as the object is to make the hero stead of money.

which is just as necessary in school- reasonable. more intelligible to ordinary hu- the solid principle that any eff-dating from 1774. The oldest keeping as in any other kind of remedy for this must be found.

to the year business.

It might, perhaps, be sought in manity, there is no reason why it cient organization produces a ba-demi-johns belonged

advantage (profit)|1830, should not be a process applied lance of

If he is a good teacher, a good two directions. First, it would He disliked hock and port, but to some of the more recondite which has got to go to one or

speaker, a good-looking man, or have a wholesome effect on public the other of the four classes of people his brandies were unique. Ha sciences and arts, such as

good with the boys, so much thejschool education, as a whole, if it held that ordinarily the 100 bottles of 1795 Science and Art of Economies. concerned, and ought to go in a had nearly

better, but these are not indispen- were

schoolmaster's real importance Iles The Selence is simply the collec- fair proportion to all. Even the which he bought at Monte Carlo, sable attributes. tion and study of facts relating State itself, as a provider of ornearly 300 of a cognac from the

Does the good assistant master's in his teaching, and not in his housemaster, That to the provision and use of der, has only a claim in the first Tuileries which had been bottled experience promote the acquisition duties as goods and services, and the re-class which should not exceed for Louis Philippe, and bore hie of the three indispensables? No, master should be most admired who ward or payment made for them. the equivalent of value received; initials, and two bins of 1824 and it does not; for by the good assist-improves his knowledge of the sub- It must always be laborious and and it makes no real difference 1842, which he particularly trea-ant master is meant nowadays the ject he teaches, and studies the art more or less intricate, dealing whether this be collected in a fix- aured. with carves of variation and ed sum, or a proportion of profits, weighted indices and so on; but or as a dividend.

All the economic struggles of there is no reason at all why it should not be enormously simpli- the day are caused by one class

A woman is as old as she locks; fied by the adoption of uniform or another trying to get for it. methods of statistics, and honest self the whole of the ultimate ja man is old when he stops look- publicity in reports. The Art is profit, often called the equity." Ing.

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good of teaching it even. to the point of good housemaster, and

who is en-refusing to take over a house. housemaster is a man

Some meanA might be devised thusiastic by nature and entirely

for transferring some of the finan devoted to the boys by choice.

The Housemister's Limitations cial advantages of a house to the more responsible teaching posts. It If he had the first of these might be recognised that the house- qualities and not the second, any master is only keeping the machin- incipient aptitude for a headmaster-

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probably never had any of the gifts except on the social side, and even these are being atrophied by too FILIPINOS WITHOUT much adolerent company.

House- masters they are and housemastere they must remain. This, at least,

PASSPORTS.

is the conclusion at which the elecTaken From Them As No

Chinese Visa.

· If "Very good! Go up one," approved tors to a headmastership are apt

to arrive. Now comes our third

TO BE SENT TO SHANGHAI

a method of deducing from the Mr. William Green, of the Ameri

ship would have led him away into ery in order, while the teacher is using it for the purpose for facts how to secure the efficiency can Federation of Labour, says Only Two of each industry and the just the Steel Capitalista take it all;; There are only two kinds of men journalism or politics, at any rate!

Fascism Idivision of its benefits.

is denounced 38 in the world; the kind that fall for as a side-line. At school he would which it is intended, namely, the Secondly, the governors of the How little information is real scheme to get it all for the man women and the kind that women then stand condemned as not keen preparation of youth for adult life. enough. He would be outrun, and public schools might combine to ly given to the public may be agera; Trades Union leaders fall for.

not undeservedly, by the enthus- judged from the surprise often demand it all for the la Communism claims awakened by the realisation that bourer;

Husband-Joan, why on earth lasts and devotees who can grow to establish a sort of staff college, after all the enthusiasm and de-everything for the consumer.

which to some extent determine traction, the attacks and de- The problem before our Econom- must you feed every tramp that be fanatical about their houses and where those who aspired to be head- fences, that have raged round Iste is to try, after making allow-comes to the door? Wife-Be-fantastically interested in the do-masters could go through a course

But these men are not the stuff their capacity for the post. the personality of Signor Musso-ances for all the variations of de-cause it is such a joy to see a manings of the boys.

headmasters are made of. They lini and the Italian Corporative tail of different classes of in-eat a meal without finding fault State' it is only this month that dustry, to discover a means of re-with the cooking. the Corporations have been gulating the division in accord- instituted, and it will therefore ance with substantial justice.

Anything entirely new would "Spell chimnes," said the teacher be at least a year before any conclusions can be drawn as to be suspect from the beginning, to a little girl in the front row.

"C-h-i-m-n-e-y," answered the how they work.. Equally surpris for it is hardly to be supposed ing is it that the latest Soviet that any useful system would not little girl. development has passed with have been tried somewhere. scarcely any comment. The re-we discard all slogans and look the teacher. cognition of private property at what is happening in the "Please, miss," answered the little question, and the most pointed one: Why on earth should the electors: (though limited); the introduc- countries that have been experi-girl, "I've got a clean frock on!".

turn to the dons?-

Two Filipinos, Alfriedo Tuason tion of piecework wages into the menting, the type that seems to

The answer is not very easy, It) factories, which are now to work be coming to the top is the 'uti Tobacconist's Twaddla

and Alfriedo Abale, were brought for a profit (though that will gollity company' with which we are "I want a cigar for my has can only be given by comparing before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the

It to the State); and cash payment so familiar in Hong Kong,

them with the schoolmasters, an Central Magistracy this morning, for imports, are not develop enables the Government to Fairly strong, madam?” ments of Communism, but a re-cure fair terms for the public in

"Yes, the last one broke in his which the Fellows of Eton and the And charged with entering the turn, to very familiar methods of regulations and contract and pocket."

Governors of Harrow had to face. Colony without valid passports.

Detective-Sergeant C. Mottram organisation. The managing leaves plenty of scope to mRNA-

Well, then, on a general reckon- It seems Commissions and Commissaries gers and employees.

Ing it must be admitted that the stated that accused came to the Colony by the ss. Norviken from will be very like the Italian Cor-likely that an extension of the

we Mr. and Mrs. Cohen were tour dons except perhaps in fiction) are porations. Since Economics is utility company" such as

they had American passports, but concerned with goods and money, have for our ferries and busca in Italy. When they arrived in Plan certainly no odder than the school-Shanghai. Defendants said that and not with the sentiment of and gas is likely to "debunk a Mrs. Cohen took her 200 lb. np the masters, are at a higher level of

they had no Chinese visa, spiral stairway of the famous ability, politer if a trifie pas friend- that these were taken from them as patriotism, we seem to discern a lot of highflown theorising.

Leaning Tower, leaving her husly better at conversation, and also, The case was remanded 48 hours. trend to a uniform type even in

band below. She leaned far out if they have held any of the college the two countries that were sup- posed to be most opposed in Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Dalgety Kerr, from the topmost rampart, waved offices, more practised in adminis for arrangements to be made to theory.

who were married at the Registry scarf at her husband, and shout-tration. For the college cera send them back to Shanghai.

pampak have performed functions which at Without any abstruse analysis Office on June B, leave for Manila ad. "Hit Come on “up.”

Stroet, Chinese, named Law Sam, anyone can see that an industry by the President Johnson on Satur Cohen looked up to the top of school are kept in the hands of the For wasting water in Temple requires four sorts of people to day. Formerly, Miss Ray Zimmer the tower for the first time, then headmaster. Despe combine to make it a success, man, the bride arrive in Hong Kong he shouted "Backy, Becky, get Dons Have The Best Of It was fined $5 by Mr. E. Wynne There are (1) men who supply only recently accompanied by her back! You're bending the build. The dopa seem to have the best Jones at the Howloon Magistracy

Ing.

of it, then, except in the article of this morning bulidings and plant (capitalists); mother.

band."

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Alarking

odious process, no doubt, but one

at