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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1931.

MASONS AT THE "CATHEDRAL.

SERVICE.

other factor than the academic Hong Kong." The opinion was standard, which it is in its interest wrong, and though the English to maintain. The University is Singers made no concessions to called in to assess the value of the "popular" taste they enjoyed a werk done in school and to give its remarkably successful senson. What YESTERDAY'S IMPRESSIVE verdict without bias. The favour- they gave was familiar, even able result hoped for is the stimulus though it had been hidden for which the school applies in goading centuries; words and music were. the pupils to greater efforts. The attuned to English cars. cortificate if gained then oarries the authority of the University

At Saturday's concert every item was given with the power and the an impartial body which lies out-technical perfection that have won side the influence of the schools our two most welcome visitare their Such a diploma is bound to be place in the world of music. And

prestige than a mere school certi

The annual Masonic Service alwara held at this time of year in St. John's Cathedral is invari able well attended and greatly AP prociated both by the members of the craft and at the Cathedral con- gregation. The Masons, in their most impressive regalia, forma

Tho United States Commitico which has been investigating into the activities of the Communist SUMMARY OF NEWS.party suggests that the party bo declared illegal in the United States,

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and the nobility of HANDEL's « Where'er you walk," with which The test and the preparation for Mr. Kusrond opened his first group such an examination becomes not of songs, how much more did his only an intellectual one, but Raudience enjoy "When Childher physical and nervous one as well. Plays," "Sea Fever" and "The ress. The evils of examination pressure Riddle Song." How much better have beon pointed out by HERDSET they are to English ears than, for SPENCER, who draws a lurid and example, the pathetic little depressing picture of a young girl forced in post-war days of Buo- Grenadiers." sinking under the attack of brain-MANN'S "The Two fever brought on by overstudy. Sir Lightness and variety, humour and JOSIAH STAMP, on the other hand, gond story telling are the glory of has said that no one is worth much the English song, who has not spent hours of solid *THERE hns been considerable work in the study, forgetting cold, criticism about the mengre success hunger and everything else in the achieved in the recont local ex-onger pursuit of knowledge for aminations by the various schools. examination purposes. In a mixed community, with schools

HONG KONG, JANUARY 10, 1931.

EXAMINATIONS.

of such wide ranges of efficiency, it

certain direction.

whether the

verse.

Yu Yu Jen, President of the Control Yuan, who has just return." ed from a tour of inspection of Shensi, has unfolded an appalling story of the famins conditions in that province.

Pego 7.

Masons attend Cathedral Service. Pago 6.

Mr. Chadbourne is leaving. Paris The funeral took place on Satur

Page to-day for London, whore ho will A census of Hong Kong is to be meet the representatives of the British sugar interests and urge the Page necessity for refraining from an in- taken on March 7.

Page 7. Priz-giving day was celebrated erease in production,

In his address to the Assembly, 'Page. 10. lege.

Lord Irwin (Viceroy of India) dealt The body of Privato Marshail, with the crimes of violence which have deeply stained the fair name who was drowned in the Kowloon

of India, and he appealed to the Reservoir, has been recovered.

leaders of the two communities now in Gront Britain to set the seal of friendship once again upon the vola- tions of the two peoples whom un happy circumstances have latterly estranged.

Pago 7.

Home football results. Local football results. Fanling Races.

men, prominent among them being the Anglican and Free Church Clergy, with the Bishop of Victoria (the Rt. Rev. Dr. C. R. Duppus D.D.) one of the Grand Chaplains, at their head. Those of us who are not Masons are intrigued at this partial lifting of the veil, when Sport. wo see the regalia and hear some of the stately praver read at Lodge meetings, with their em- phasis upon the aspect of God as the Great Architect of the Uni- Yesterday evening the Masons did not turn up quite so well as in previous years, but there was, how over, a very creditablo gathering.

The preacher was District Grand Martin, the lesson, St. Paul's Chaplain, the Rev. E. W. L panegyric on love, was most im- pressively and melodiously read by Past District Grand Chaplain, the Wor. Bro, the Rev. J. H. Johnston, Bishop gave the Benediction and other clergy taking part were Dean Swann and the Rev. C. B. Shann...

words be traditional, by SHAKE grEAR, or the gem of some minor poet English musio may lack the grent names of Germany, France and Italy, but for songs and It is probably as well that the ballads, it is, to the ordinary Eng young student should be told by lish audience at least, more loved

The Sermon, is obvious that the results cannot

some important authority exactly and prized than the mighty themes Dame

Taking as his text the passage, rise to the levels of those in Great what his knowledge is worth in a of BTHOVEN and BACTE

"Thou shalt love the Lord Thy Britain, though oven there it fre

Failure is a CLARA BUTT and her husband have God with all thy heart,, with all quently happens that less than wholesome corrective to self-conecit, done a great service to English thy mind, and with all thy strength, the Rev. E. W. L. Martin, em- fifty per cent. of those who enter which is fairly widespread, and is music by giving their audiences and thy neighbour as thyself," manage to pass, as an inspection more likely to beneft the character these English airs, and by the help-phasised first the meanings of the Greek words translated of the London University Matri

of a young student than abstinence ing hand they have held out to two enlation list for the past twenty from the test, and consequent illu- the living composer and poet. They love." One, appearing very rare ly, was emotional love, the love years would, show, and yet for this sions about his own intellectual have shown that the constant be between married persons and sweet examination there is no compulsion worth. The community does not littling of English music is not hearts, and the other was a general тел. Masonry emphasised this of any sort applied. The candi want a great mass of so-called in- based on sound and fair criticism. attitude of goodwill towards all dates consist of those who enter tellectuals, unaware of their own If England to-day is once more "a goodwill. It was the essence of the with the approval of their own cap limitations and possessing only an nest of singing birds," these two attitude of Masons towards not only a splen- fellow Masons but towards all nhle teachers, thinking they have unusual degree of assertiveness, great artists have played

humanity. from hut a small select group who by did part in rescuing us In Hong Kong the matter is com: hard study and by their own adulation and bad imitation of the plicated not only by the varying inherent ability have reached the Continental composers,

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"Game Whom? "!

The Universe and Mathematics. Professor Jeans, in a book which had recently created a great stir, of the described the vastness Universe, where there were stars millions of times larger than this earth, and whose numbers, to ex What is given below reproduces press it figuratively, were at least one sheet of paper handed in byns grent na the number of grains of sand in this planet. Science was a candidate at an examination held revealing that the Universe was the recently in this Colony. It has creation of a pure mathematician. power behind the Universe were a psychological as well as other in Older" conceptions of the driving terest. The three omitted answers biologist, creating and evolving life may, of course, have been lost over vast ages; a later iden was of an engineer, and now He was the immoveable laws of mathe thought of as one working through maties.

a word Lewis Carrol would have

liked!

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you! 3-When: I am; when to school

aturday.

4.-Whom: Came whom. 5.Slowly: Slowly is a verb. 6-Done: Done is noua. 7.-Swimming Swiniving have

two feet. 8.-Without.

10.

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Therefore.

and of the teachers, many of whom We have seen the evil effects in labour under severo disadvantages India and in China of allowing a with regard, to qualifications, but sentimental regard for the feelings by the fact that the examinations, of the candidate to enter inte an primarily designed to test the estimate of their examination work. Chinese, aro taken by others who do It leads to a continual lowering of not have to accept the conditionsstandards, and the raising of a imposed upon the former. For the group of ill-informed students, who Chinese it is a very severe test, in acquira a vocal power of expression that they must not only surmount without having anything of value owing to lack of time. Swiniving is the obstacle of a foreign language, to express. The national examina and have such proficiency in it nations of China in the past were on will enable them to 'read and an- the whole conducted with impartial swer every question in that lan- justice and were a good method of guage, the standard for which, by measuring the quality of tradition, is exceedingly high: The nation's intellect. Failure in them Chinese then are compelled to take liad as much value from the point" two languages, neither of which is of view of the community as success easy to them, whereas the non-had. The importance of the success Chinose can get through on one depended very largely on the num- English-and, therefore, in the Ler who failed to reach the stand- examination the latter has the conard. The failures were left under fidence which springs from greater no delusions, and that was salutory familiarity with and control of the experience for the individual. The language in which the examination axamination, however, does not. is conducted. On the other hand, deal exhaustively with the in- the Chinese student by virtue of dividual: it merely tests him in one his age, which is generally higher direction, but fortunately for those than that of the non-Chinese candi- of us who, possess but one talent date, has a more mature mind and and, therefore, aro unequal to the is better able to deal with the examination test, there is still left intricacies of mathematics and a large field in which we may, if science, and it is in these directions not excel, at least not fail. A that he seeks his compensations. large portion of the world's work The advantage of such examina.is, and fortunately can be, carried tions is that they provide the Goyon quite successfully with average ernment and other employers with or even less than average mental assistants, who have been authorita- ability. And above all, much de- tively classifed. The alternative to pends on affability, ease of manner, the examination system for public geuiulitz, "generosity, loyalty, and appointments is the method of pat-other qualities, none of which the ronage which in these democratic examination, reveals or rewards. daye is out of fashian We would not now approve of Lord MEL BOURNE'S attitude, which he once

mado clear, to a fellow Minister,

ENGLISH MUSIC.

who said in a burst of candour SATURDAY's concert by Dame CLARA that if two men, applied to him BUTT and Mr. KENNERLEY RUMFORD for a post, one of whom was a re-emphasised once; again, the charm Reminded that they must Lodge Thoirlative, he would, ceteria paribtis, of English songs-not only tradi Proofs of Debt with the Liquidatora

"And so tional songs, but those being pro- appoint his relative. should I said Lord MELBOURNE, duced by living poets and com "Geteris paribus be 'dd." On posers. It was in March that we the whole the Government had heard the English Singers, better appoint oven its junior clerks talented troupe, who specialise in on the examination results.

Elizabethan music, singing most of The University, which is intimate their items unaccompanied as they with local complong term rasterikan sung in the nanollee

J. HENNESSEY SETH, E. HAMPDEN RO98,

Joint Liquidators, Hong Kong, Oh Jar, 1931, [17

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