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Across

There's "no duty for a" famoùa #old battleship nowadays, alas!

(anag.).

6 You have to cut the carpet 10.

make it at this

Is put in a special kind of poem, as incident,

11 Excuse for beacons.

12 Heraldic fur.

18 A poet whom one could imagine a writer of hot numbers,

14 Principal,

17 If fresh, makes

doughty

'opponent for the American gun-

FARD.

19 How the shape of old Hebrew

measures became altered.

20 All the women think it simply

21 Yes, marm, its nut about the

way the baby cries..

23 Master of girl or damna.

24 A team spart.

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26 The vagrant's heart is in India.

20 Why protection from the sun?

as, 'Arry might ask. Well, I'm sleepy.

30 A language of Palestine.

31 This is free in Bridlington,

32 Mine tastes a little different in

French pubs.

Down

3 If I can't leave this hole, how can

I go to a better onot

'B A short sentence,

4 in the Channel-due to the

guns, maybe.

5 We may take it, this is almost a

tramp.

6 Oriental vests that are to be seen

at the stern in certain vessels. 7-A military aurvey by which they express gratitude across the Channel.

8 The bulky bookmaker, apparent

ly, sends the waves back casily (two words).

10 A supplier of venison in Selkirk.

16 Being mixed up in a sprec.

10 Such a chop is eating, and only

an lot would be off it.

18 Prudence at the end of a barrel.

20 vulgarly intoxicated.)

22 What a "fagt Rent" must be

paid (anag.).

20 The Latin goddess whe was al-

most beloved.

27 The grip of evil.

28 A farm building, bar one letter.

Yesterday's Solation

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY

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-Dr.-Thomas-Wright, Headmaster,

of Coatbridge Secondary School,

Lanarkshire, addressed, a mosting

of the Dalton Association, In con- nexion with the Conference of Educational Associations, recently, Taking na bis subject "Fitting the State School to the Chlid," Dr. Wright "described in detail an educational experiment which was carried out in the primary depart- ment of West Coats Higher Grade School, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire,

of which school he was until recent ly headmaster. The experiment

may be described as an example of

the Dalton plan plus the project method. It was tried among children between the ages of seven "plus" and 11 "plus."

.

Dr. P. B. Ballard, chairman of the Child Study Society and former- |ly · divisional Inspector to the Education Department of the Lon- don County Council, presided. He ould that the keynote at the Con-: ference of Educational Associations this year was individuality. The principle of individuality meant self-reliance, initiative, resource, Independence of thought and judg ment, making the best of one's Ifo and abilities. Once they ac- copted that principle meant giving. Individual work to scholar and it led on to many other things.

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JANUARY 31,

WARDER ATTACKED

CHRISTMAS DAY DISTURBANCES

Glasgow Dec. 2012

A group of prisoners in Barlinnie

Prison, who, It is alleged, were the ring-leaders of the disturbances in

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and were subsequently isolated,

were involved innfight on

Christmas Day, 18" m

The men were exercising and

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discovered that the usual period FULL RADIOGRAM

had been curtalled. On the veranda

leading to the calls two prisoners suddenly attacked a warder. Other warders went to their colleague's assistance, and at once several other prisoners joined in the fight. The disturbance was quickly quelled, but one of the prisoners is reported to have had an arm broken and a warder had his bend injured,

This morning a prisoner чуда

PERFORMANCE

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taken from his coll to the prison PORTABLE

hospital suffering from a wound in the throat. The prison authorities have not made an official statement on the disturbances, which are to be įinvestigated at an inquiry,

To-day the prisoners were work- ing in the fields as usual, and a number of warders from other prisons have arrived at Barlinnio to relleve members of the normal staff, some of whom have been on duty almost continuously for four days.

It has been stated that the cause of the unrest in the prison is due to nrisoners on remand being per-

Dr. Wright said that in the so filled up with the learning of little larger. Then prepare a bath mitted to smoke while the ordinary typical school to-day the time was piece of board the same size or traditional knowledges and akills of warm soap-auds with shredded prisoners are denied this privilege. that little time was left for any-soap or soapflakes, and add a tea and to stricter regulations having thing else. There was great con- fusion as to whether the aim of a spoonful of salt and a dessert-spoon stopped the smuggling of cigarettes school was to teach children or to ful of borax. Rub the soap into the and tobacco into the prison. teach subjects. According to the rug with your hands, thoroughly.

schools he had seen, It had been soaking it first. Continue soaking

decided that the main object was and rubbing alternately until the

to teach subjects, not children.

The divorce of the school from the rug is quito clean all over. Then use. It was far more important everyday activities of life appeared wash it over several times with that people should be able to pursue to be responsible for some of the clean lukewarm water. main evils of the whole system.

knowledge intelligently. In the

Most adults regarded the school es Still keeping it on the board, but experiment.undertaken they man- a completely artificial thing, and it in the sun to dry. Every now aged to give the children; a fow children did exactly the same and again brush it with and against selected facts for them to use in They found that it had no bearing the pile with a stiff brush. When the independent pursuit of know- on their ordinary everyday acti- it is almost, but not quite dry, re-ledge in any direction they chose. vitles. They regarded it as some- thing that must be discarded at the move it from the board and shake One of the principles of the new earliest possible moment.

it vigorously. Finish drying. It by psychology was that learning was hanging it over a clothes line, never single, that facts and subjects

were related.

A WASTE PERIOD

things that were given out to be learned in doses.

·

The divorce of the school from

There were certain things in the the ordinary activities of life had led to children being deprived of

school curriculum, certain skills, in the development that came from

The main conception of the ex-drill-was necessary. Those were which a great deal of repetition and participation in those activities. periment at Cambuslang was that That was not so serious in the the school should be a place where provided for in another way, but earlier days of schools, but the the children actually lived. Sub- even there they decided that the coming of industrialism madeject-matter was not abandoned; it orthodox way "was not the best.

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change in the state of things and was a question of emphasis. The The traditional school had crushed the schools never made up for it. aim was not to make subject-matter variation, which was a good enough Don't Neglect Sore Throat! It was from participation in acti- the main job of the day and to give reason for the condemnation of the vities outside the school that it out in doses. Their method was children still got the mafa part of

their development. Beneath the to get the children to engage in all whole thing in itself. At the kinds of natural activities and to school in question they quite de- current system of schooling there give them subject-matter for learn-finitely made an attempt to devise lay the notion that childhood, ining as the need arose. That was a new technique for the cultivation. itself, and apart from adult activi-actually the way learning proceed- tied at the best thing to perioded before a child want to school at of that variability in children,

that best that could all. Such be done was to fill it up with pre-meant a complete revolution

a view of education They gave them avery opportunity paration for adult living. The school procedure. The curriculum

in of creative work, of self-expression. idea was full of evils. The system was regarded as a series of experi~ of giving out certain subjectences. The teacher solzed on ed to restrict the activities of

Dr. Ballard said that when he

a was an inspector he did everything

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and had come for the elimination of progress. It was hard work" butį

A TONET TECTONIC matter to be learned in doses tend-situation in which the children were in his power to encourage teachers NR school to things which could be actually and genuinely interested to do the kind of work such as had

and made use of it. This did not TRIPO SEQUENCE done in that way. Schools had mean that the school was turned been described. He believed that 1 MONTH CRFFN always dealt with the same kind of over to the children, for the activity the inspectors of the Board of QUASI ANTARCTIC things, but there were some sub- engaged in was usually one chosen, Education would encourage teachers URBO & TVVn!

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