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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1936.

SCHOOLMISTRESS

ATTACKS EXAMS

Schoolchildren have found a champion for their cause

in Miss Laura G. Bransom, now president of the London Headteachers' Association.

She attacked the competitive examination in her address to the Association at its annual meeting at Living- stone Hall, Westminster this month.

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tions which children had to face àt,ten years of age.

"If the child is successful and vital need of every country to-day. wins his place at, the expense of It was only in the schools that the olker children," Misa Branson said, power of right judgment could be

then the examination grind be- developed and consolidated. kinn again, for our whole educa- ional system is permeated with it.

FEELS INFERIOR

"If he falls-and most do fall-the

Miss Bransom is the association's fourth woman president in 48 years.

sense of failure is borne in deeply SCIENCE RANKS upon him and he feels at the age of I that he has been proved inferior."

She asked for equality in educi-] tion-pictured an educational sys- tem in which all schools would be equal in status and excellence and attended by all children in common, She said: "If we can afford to spend hundreds of thousands a year pro ducing and training horses and dogs; that will run faster than any other horses and dogs have ever run before, we can. I suggest, afford to give every child in this country the best chance of living fully and happily this life which has, after all, been thrust upon him,”

CATS AS POOR

RAT CATCHERS Ithaca, Dec. 20.. Only a few smalt female cats are more efficient ratters than are large tomcats, says Cornell University bulletin on "The Control of Rate."-

"It is an unusual cat that will tackle a full-grown rat," the bulletin pointed out,

"The rat's ferocity and vigour in defence is so great that most house cats, though glad to catch the young, pause to reckon before attacking a

An educated democracy was the full-grown rat.

"Muscle" Plane

Berlin, Dec. 15.

"While many persons think of the cat as a rat enfcher, their opinions are based largely on the premise that If the cat catches and kilis a half Herr Heine Hoffmann, of Offen-dozen rats a year that they see, then bach-on-Main, is reported to have the actual number slaughtered must covered a distance of 407 yards in be much larger:", bin home-made muscle-propelled neroplane.

The flight, which was made at Hamburg la siated to have been carried ent under ofecial control. Central, News.

Dogs, according to the bulletin, make the best rat catchers. A sin- gle terrier, the bulletin pointed out. has been credited with killing more than one thousand rats in a year,

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