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MODERN EDUCATION.

The Headmasters and Latin.

FEE

PRISON SCANDALS.

ments a contemporary.

Attention has boon called to the matter by the order for the restrictions of

LAST WEEK

OF

WHITEAWAY'S

SALE

9th. to 14th. February

That of free places, for in-Robert Brindell, who a short tiz ALL ODDMENTS, REMNANTS and

An American Enquiry. The first of a series of six The Headmastern Conference, The State Prison Commission, Christmas lecturon, "adapted to which met just before Christmas which has bedd investigating flailing To Canton daily at8s.m.and 10 p.m. (Bundays 10 p.m. only) | juvenile auditory," was delivered

charges of luxury, caso, and From Canton daily at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. (Sundays 5p.m.only) at the Royal Institution, Albom at Cambridge, discussed many favouriiiam at Bing Sing, the arlostroot, recently, by Mr. Frank subjects ovon if it arrived at no New York State penitentiary, in lecturer in notable decision on any. This now looking into the liberality SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD. Balfour Browne,

Zoology (ontomology) University

with which the State Board of of Cambridge, who has taken for may have boon partly becauso Parole has been releasing con- HONGKONG – MACAO LINE

his subject "The Habits of several of the questions which viots after they have sorvad the Insoots. In his introductory wore ventilated were not felt to minimum time allowed by tho looture, Mr. Browne dealt with bo of equal Importanco or ürgonov terms of their Kantonco, com- | inssot collecting and what It leads to. With many pooplo, he in all the schools which the hoad- [said, insoot collecting is merely masters reprosented.

an incidont, liko the measles One catches the complaint from

meone, and usually recovers atanco, is of more concern.to ago was convicted of using bis. Such people could look back upon some than to othors: and position as an organised labour leader to obtain largo sụme ol the time when they shamelessly batting also, which was reported money from building contractors ran about with a butterfly not to be quite a common practice on thrants of ordering a strike. a period in their life which they afterwards regrotted. The broken among the pupils of some second-gix years of Brindoll's niaximum ary schools, is probably unknown gontence romain to be sorvad. and mouldy things of their collection wore to bo found from is so fully mapped out for them investigating commission, it is among boys olsewhere whose time The proliminary report of thio time to timo amongst the rubbish that they have neither the nood said, substantiates of the house, to remind them nor the leisure for that perilous

the oom- of thoir transient, doakness form of excitement. But in day luxury at Bing-Sing.

plaints of favouritlem and But some nover recovered from schools the pupils are bound to this complaint, and it was with reflect the influences of their large sums of money at their It discloses that prisonors with the hope that many of those pre-home life tore olosoly than those command through relativos and sont might catch it that be wished in public schools; if batting and friends can arrango for monthly to talk to them upon particular lines of work. Different collec-bookmaking are in the atmosp deposits to their oradit as high as tore started, cald the icoturer, if they did not show it.

here they would hardly be beys £20, and they are permitted to from different motives, but be larly, as the Headmaster of meats, bako-stuffs, vegetablos, Simi-purchase the choloost freeb believed that the majority started Bradford Grammar School com-high-priced cigars, high class arti from a desire to accumulate and plained the other day, the distrac- cles of apparel, and unusual toilet possoss something of their own: tions of wireless are likely to articles." Prisoners without and liko stamp collecting, insects prove a temptation to day boys. funds wore onay to got.

aro employed by the While neither betting not stop-richor Innates to wait on them Roforcing to what he tormed ing-in is invariably a vico in and act 69 "crank" collectors, one of whose adults they may bo dangerous prisoners refrained from eating servants. Many whims was nover to put into temptations to unformed charac meals in the gonoral mese ball, their collection anything they tors whose business as school but prepared all their meals had not caught thomsolves, Mr.bodys in Bomothing quite outside with Browne told a story of his dis-different; but they illustrato from the commissariat.

food purchased covery of a particular water the kind of thing against. which) boatlo, which two collectors said schoolmasters have properly to had not been soon for 60 or 70 bo on their guard. If education years, and they wanted to know always resulted for the whore he found it. He pointed educated in an appreciation of to two specimens in his aquarium, values and an ability of dis- and offered them to his visitors; tinguishing between what is of but they preferred to look for value and what is not, botting as them in the proper habitat. They a national amusement might bo returned, however, without suo-sensibly reduced and the merely cess and eventually took out the distractive powers of a scientific specimens from the aquarium. toy counteracted. Later, however, when they were

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The following fino thought is Niven to a recont issue of the contributed by Mr. Frodorick|

Where am I going to, passing

Observer.

horo,

Listening, looking, lending an searching another pond, they But it would be a mistake to car

took the tubes containing the base upon the report of the pro-To the red-breast's trill, or the baotles and emptied them in coodings of the Conference any loon's lone call,

fall,

the water, in order that they conclusion as to the prevalence To the doop tom-tom of a water- might immediately capture thom of botting at large in our schools; in their net, and be able to say that they caught the specimens thomselves.

so much does one differ from To the sigh of wind in fir-troo another in its sircumstances.

and his assistants.

..

topa,

And hushed in the silenco whon;

that stops? Where am I going to, gazing|

round

groy

know,

Lost again the drying dew.

Likewise it le probable that no AMUSING, MISTAKES,

hard and fast rule can be laid One of the lines which all This subject, which was discuss On the rain of flowers that jowol

down about the teaching of Latiu. collectors took up as soon as they ed at some length, was particular- started collecting was naming ly appropriate for a meeting at Once having soon the down, I

the ground? thoir specimens. Some nover troublod to do this and sont thom schools there, the Perso, has been Often, betimes, for that surprise

Cambridge, because one of the riso to an authority to bo namod, famous for a good many years of its beginning, the ancient way, One collector in the South of Beotland, who sent his specimens now for the direct teaching given A pallor, a presence, and in the to Dr. Sharpe to be named, would by the Headmaster, Dr. Rouse, put them back in the wrong method as pursued at the Porse

The direct Something. It seems, that once I places in the box, which naturally has been highly successfull but it Fied to some amusing mistakes. has not yot established itself in all The second line of work was over others. But whatever Perse the life-history of insects, and methods lead to ultimately, there many collectors got so interested can hardly be any dogmatizing in it that they took up this line to about them. As the typos of With a joy beyond telling my tho exclusion of other work-school whore Latin is taught aro The third line was one which not uniform, it may well be that Looking, listening, I am glad,

whole heart fill. was bofore the whan they there is no one method of touch- With wealth started collecting, and was easilyling it. though a

not wealthy change-over! developed. Thor Hoon discovered midway from the old to the new Looking, listoning, passing by,

Croesus had, that the woods, the open fields, might almost certainly beAlthough I know not where go I. and the marshes had their own bad. In sobools whore Latin particular insecte, which were is not studied more than twol distributed about the country in or three years by the majority, a particular way. Some wore it becomes a question not how

to be found in the mountains perfection can be attained, but, only, others in the valleya: how much can be got into the

I know not where I go, nor why The sight of Orion in the sky, The swerve of a bird, the curvol

of a bill.

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so that they had a habitat, or time. By the older teaching, System by Which Native is localisation, according to the im-which was slow if suro, many

Tricked, mediate surroundings. Most of foll out by the way of shoor

his own collecting had boon con-exhaustion and grow up todolost A molhod of tricking the fined to one group of insects, the tyranny. A really tyrannical natives is described in a Colonial nainoly. water-boatlee, whose Latin course, loading to vary Offico report, issuod recently on types differed with the nature of little, but occupying much time, the Northern Territories of the the water in which they lived. 16 hardly to bo tolerated Gold Coast, The lake, the river, and the stroam in those days when there aro Cowrios-ornamental sholls, a each possessed its different com-so many rival subjects competing small variety of which is employ munity, and by looking at the for places in the curriculum od as money in Africa and the insect a collector would know Thora may be cases when a good East Indies are still used ex whether it came from a pond, a doal should be sacriflood, pro- tensively in the Northorn Fro- rivor, or a lake.

vided that life is imparted into vince, and the Asting Com-

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When young collectors bogan the lesson from the first, for the missionar reports that to ask why were spoolas capable ancient languages are studied for those are got rid of they will of being grouped, they would be not quite the same purposes as always be a fountain of wealth getting out of mero collecting the modern: the spirit behind to the trader, and a thorn in into its scientific aspect. He did them is what has to be cap the side to the Administration. not hope that they would develop tured. But whetber Pere Lack of nickel colnago and into entomologists or hotanists. methods are feasible in other small change in the market gives but anyone who collected Insects schools or not, the Porso influence the trader and the moneychanger could leave behind him work has boon working for yours to the chanco of making a very good which could be used by others in wards a more humano Latin our living at the exponse of the local the way he had described, Inriculum for beginners than the inhabitants," adds the report. his other lectures ho would dos old. Archaeology, too, has helped! "This is done with the greatest with the life-history of insects and the fact that a Bonisty for the pass: the trader and the money- WHY LET THAT COLD TROUBLE YOU? which involved, sald Mr. Browno, Promotion of Roman Studies now changer aro a combine. The grantor concentration and con- oxists for students in the higher unfortunate local inhabitant tinuous work.

anks shows that Latin as a sub-prosents shilling to buy. and Roman things generally, arosals, the trader says he only far from being morely the takes cowries and the purchaser YEAR'S NEW STAMPS. machinery for mental gym-2009 to the monoy-changer six hundred Approximately 1,250 now naatios. On the contrary, so who gives him stamps have been issued by deep and vital in their froportance cowries for his shilling, he returna various countries during 1924. to the modern world that it would to the trader who gives bim not These included now values for be to take too narrow a view to a shilling's worth of salt but six tho Protected State of Brunei, hold that there is but one way of hundred cowries worth, saying THE COLONIAL showing view of "the Venico opening the door to them.quite glibly that one, thousand of the East,

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