Oct. 18, TweRE is a good deal written and spoken to-day on the subject of examinations. No doubt. too much attention is given to them our modern educational system and this has the effect of making many people on leaving school or college declare that never again will they submit to exams. in any shape or form whatever. Having obtained the certificates and diplomas necessary for entering upon their life's work, they feel that at last they are free from the troublesome necessity of appending © their answers to questions expressly set with the object of tripping up the unwary. made, however, than to imagine that' we are ever to escape from I Notes and Comments exams. They last throughout life. Teachers, doctors, parsons, Pig's Flesh and Cancer lawyers and all the rest have to A recent issue of the London bear the brunt of examinations "Sunday Times" contained a very at every step forward and woe interesting letter from a Hindu betide them if they lose sight of medical man, Dr. S. Mitra, on the the fact. Teachers, for instance, connexion between pork and cancer. are always being tested by their Dr. Mitra represented Hindu medi-pupils and the school-master who cine at the International Congress of Medicine held in London in 1913. forgets this will never be a He now writes:—success in his profession, for After over 30 years' careful pupils are gox examiners and investigation, have come to the con their verdict is seldom wrong. sinsion' that pork" eating is more Fesnonsible Yor carer in the alinent 'Many a master who imagines he iyetem than another singh 4 is popular with his class because The" Chinse ate' fond of" york, "and he is easy cing and on terms of eet the alentary rate he imagines to be friend-country.. Jews in England. suffer" less ship with his boys ould receive from intestinal cancer than, Chestinng who ca! pork, in Arabiay Persian and a rude awakening if he knew Rfghsnistam, Moslems, whose religion, their real opinion of him.
He that of the Jews, prohibits. pork, Nery rarely suffer' from, intestinal would speedily recognize that his attempts to gain popularity Gynec Ta foal Hindu, Parveen, eek in' any" form, suffer Touch "lest were seen through, The same ite befalls the man, who, lack-from imestinal cancer than parish and amoor "research, Yo be ing the scholarship and all the other adjuncts necessary to the ite. true dignity of a school master Would seek "ths. cooperation "of the Forelzn Ofice, and. obtain. information attempts to bluff his pupils by from British consuls" assuming qualities he does not inoed that my star possess.
He unerringly ing the rare cccurvence of cameer "placed"
in the youngsters' the slimentary system amon minds.
One might and occa- ang "in creat prevalence locally, dove, through soma) cremate Grass teat, portesatert piece of good fortune, pass an tiner'more from duodenal weer, gall examination when failure was! itadier disease, and-appendices' han, deserved. But never does anyone "009 of ies pass successfully the careful] Indian experience will, scrutiny of @ class of schoolboys! unless he is man right through. ignore my sie that featnal anced "very rare sions Hinds, Nou the same with the] Oren ing relied of cure, medical profession. The doctor] san" \sther forbidden foots has not done with exams. when practices wns dg te itt he emerges from the university omenect Int'ac hot county bearing with him his degrees Egypt, Sinai or Palestine, But and diplomas.
Whether he prac-suggestion shat cancer is duc to isos in a slum, whether he be new we think, and decidedly me the medical adv er in a wide tore, One Would like to know whether the opinion of other country district or a speci Goctovs support the view that, gaining both fame and wealth, caneer is specially prevalent among he is nevertheless being con-Chinese, who ave certainly great stantly tested by his patients and their opinion is worth more than that of his university professor, For after al tel
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