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Birth Control

the

WINDING-UP PETITION

Court Proceedings Concluded

JUDGMENT RESERVED

the

CONTINUED BUGBEAR OF EXAMINATIONS

COMPLAINTS

AGAINST

THE PRESENT SYSTEM SOME PATENT DIFFICULTIES WHICH

CONFRONT EXAMINERS

(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge, D.D.)

was

The Duce, when he heard of it burst out, "No! No! Basta a ence opened in London, attendible." He thought that

On New Year's Day'a confer- things, both visible and invis- citta vaticana"-"one Vatican Cited by 100 professors, lecturers, quite safe! is quite enough.”

and secondary school teachers, In classics I think the exam- + + EVEREST'S EXTRA FEET

Those.

swaps.

smallest movement is an

effort,

to listen, at the first session, to

is:

a lecture by Sir Michael Sadler ination system works fairly The exact height which the 1938 called "An inquest on Examin-well. It encourages reading in There has been a regrettable

Everest Expedition will have to ations. He explained, how- classes tendency to drag into the local

(at any rate at Cam- The hearing of the petition 140 ft or 29.141 ft. This is sup really dead. Sir Michael is also style and literary beauty; far-

Iclimb is now usually given as 29,-ever, that the corpse was birth control controversy fac

bridge), and, for the sake of for the winding-up of the firm posed to be the height of the sam-chairman of a committee which ther, a classical scholar must pot composition, close attention to cors which are really traneous to the principal point muli, Ltd, was concluded before metrical projection

of O.E. Gidumal and Wuturait as calculated by trigono-has issued a report called "An know at least as much of his Everyone is entitled to religious Mr. Justice Lindsell in scruples, but they are out of Bankrupter Court this morn- brought up in the belief that Ever-Examination of Examiners" Examination of Examinations.” place in the consideration of 2 ing, when judgment was

howere, who were I thought at first it was

own language as of Latin and "An Greek purely social problema when dis-served.

est was 29,000 ft. plus two." need That would be an exciting ex- cussed as such The ethical)

Every paper has to be inde- point about the practice of birth Girdharmal, one of the four part-

The petitioner

was Odharmalot surrender to the newfangled periment indeed. I control is not that it legalises ers of the firm, and he brought

estimate without a struggle.

pendently read and marked by No less august a body than the ael's. no doubt excellent. sug-may affect a man's class. The I will not discuss Sir Mich-ed in if differences of opinion two examiners; a third is call- murder,

inculcates disrespect the petition on the ground that he Royal Geographical Society still gestions But as I have done most difficult paper to mark is for fundamental moral laws, was unable to carry and so on. as its detractors e-ship owing to disagreement recent Government of India surformed some opinions on

insists on the 29,002 figure. This a good deal of teaching and Latin Prose.. on the part is supported, so it is claimed by examining in my day, I have claim, but that it offers an with his co-partners. He was re- expensive. harmless and rea- sonably certain method of com-C., and Mr. Leo D'Almada inrst by printing that figure on its their influence upon education.”

presented by Mr. Eldos Potter,s, and it nails its colours to the subject

thei Systems Of Marking bating the problem of the instructed by Mr. M. A. da Silva,

of examinations and

The system of marking at wanted child among communi- ties to whom the matter is

Oxford and at Cambridge M. H. G. Sheldon, FC, in- Sir George Everest's original esti-sics and divinity; I have had no numerical marks are given and

The climbers will hope that something more than a purely Structed by Mr. M.3L Watson mate is true.

My subjects have been clas-lquite different. At Cambridge. academic question. The arm Ppeared for the other three part-

Another 138 ft. or experience with mathematics, added up; the Oxford examiner ment that birth control inter- Fers, lessrs. Keramchand, Gidu- 139 ft at that height, when the science, or history. feres with the designs of

To exam-is an impressionist; as he reads, mal ant Vutumali, who opposed will make a tremendous difference is a very highly skilled job, but forms itself in his mind

ine in the higher mathematics a letter of the Greek alphabet Almighty and is therefore a

the petition. mortal sin is also surely utterly For the petitioner Mr. Potter

I believe the merits of the can- futie If it is not. then every contended tint although the

didates can be tested fairly actions invade even the

The humours of examina- sanatorium. every hospital, all winding-up of the frm would in-

curately. It ought not to be

exalted the practice of medicine

volve a loss to the petitioner, that

GOOD SCOUT

very difficult to examine in his-seats of learning At Brase healing are collectively and as no ground why the order: Let us honour and respect the busy |

fory

nose the authorities once asked severally damned. I:

should not be made. What theybee. Once full Ee makes straight for 2ust

Pater, who was a Fellow, to surely be as much a mortal sin were concerned with was whether

Holy Orders

examine the essays in a scho- to. attempt to stare of the or not. in the circumstances, the

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larship Bishops' chaplains do not find thought the opinion of such # examination- They natural death which is man's partnership could be continued.

HYPOCRITE: inheritance in the

examinations for Holy Orders master of English style would Creator's If the petition

was dismissed. case) - "I'm afraid we'll have tard, even now, is low, and all that Pater said was, "O, I

(making the time-worn ex-very satisfactory. The stand-be valuable. inscrutable wisdom as it is to these four men world have to stop here: the engine's getting pretty

When they met. prevent unwanted life from Carry on together unless, of; coming to fruition.

But course, they came to a compromise, such hypocrites: you always say the fish priest

man may do a very good exam-don't know. Fair Companion "You men are ination and be a very poor par-all very bad There was one I thought them enough of these idle conjec-but if the Court found that they engine tures. Birth control is a could not carry on together, the

boy called Sanctuary. I liked his social movement, and as such it order must be granted. deserves careful consideration.!

Sticking To Facts

The old type of examination name!" He was not asked to "Now you must be very careful Chedorlaomer, Chushanrishath- paper: "What do you know of

examine again. Mrs, Margaret Sanger's ban Continuing, Mr. Potter said that and not say anything that is

how you answer," said the counsel. files in this matter are abso the petitioner had been accused of strictly true. Tou drive a milk cast, Buz, Luz, and Uz?" is, I hope. Proudhon's "La propriete, c'est aim, Mahershalalhashbuz, Huz, the subject for the essay was- In a Fellowship Examination lutely above question. She attempting to rain the does not advocate it for fun by bringing the petition, but he

company don't you?*

extinct: but it is not easy to le zol" In an article written some eightį (Mr. Potter) submitted that no you do for a living, then?"

“Xo, sÎN "But I thought you did What do date. One young gentleman paradoxical moralist on "Thiev test the real fitness of a candiePropriety is on the wing";2 A pessimist wrote on or ten years ago, entitled "The man could have been more reason- Civilising Force of Birth Con-able

"I drive the horse that pails the asked to write out the. Nicene ing is justifiable"; and a meta- than his client trol," Mrs. Sanger set forth the The latter had done all he could

had been.milk cart, siz”

Creed, declared. "I believe in all implications of her campaign in to avoid taking such a step, and

(Continued on Page 123 Con Page: 23) the clearest possible language to suggest that petitioner had In it she remarks that it "aims taken action out of malice would to establish a new and sounder be unfair, as it was exactly the foundation for all marriage opposite.

and

False Accusation

and all parenthood" and that In condasion Mr. Potter said is just exactly what the move that his submission was that ment does. "Its greatest treating this value," the article continues, and applying the partnership law, zs a partnership is to be found in its assertion there is such a state of animosity -and not its denial, enemies claim of the supreme able hope of reconciliation, and its exisiting that there is no reason- importance of child-life.

One for that reason the petition must inconvertible fact we

cannot be allowed.". escape: among families into!

as

which a large number of chil-exercise of their own intelli- dren are born, there is apt to gence and foresight almost

be a correspondingly large in-automatically become more in- fantile mortality. The unwebterested in life, in the future, in come child has an appreciably the upbringing of their chil-1 smaller chance of survival than dren, in the affairs of the com the child brought into the world munity at large. In a word, by desire. The mental and they bare become more physical condition of the civilised." mother, both before and after Conditions among the poor in birth, is of paramount impor-China, as is freely admitted by tance to the whole life of her all who have examined them child.”

In short, the whole move dial worker of the standing of are appalling. A Chinese so- ment must be considered in its Mr. Ho Kom-tong gives it as his social aspects, as regards the considered opinion that a life of the family, the tribe and knowledge of the methods of the nation, rather than from birth control is a "crying need" any moral or theological aspects in this country. He ought to whatever. Where is there a know; he probably comes into better field for this than in contact

with China, where the whole form-misery among the poor than more: abject dation of the national concep any other social workers here tion is balt up on the basis of Only a very blind contender will the family? Here, is Marsdeny that there are unlimited Sanger's own words, is what families among the poor who birth control has done arsong cannot provide half the neces the so-called lower classes? Insities for bringing up a family; the West: "You witness that children are born and live, the guadual change it their if they live at all, în concutions mental states, from fear and de- which are's disgrace to civili jection and hopelessness to in safion; that the social services creasing 3380zancy - and sed performed by such societies as reliance, to confidence sad mas-the Chiffrer's Aid Society but

y of life. The mother no touch the fringe of the longer ensiders herself a slave, blem, and finally, that any thi

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