The cinema is also being rapidly introduced for purposes of education, and although the Board of Education has not officially adopted it as a means of instruction, it 1s being utilized as a side line by nearly all educational authorities. Even a visit to the Zoo is nowadays almost a regular part of a child's curriculum while some authorities even see the value, from patriotic standpoint, of taking scholars to what one may call pub-lie functions. It has, however, been left to Bradford to initiate a scheme for taking selected numbers of children on a voyage to various European countries, though it is quite common for visits to be exchanged between selected pupils in a British school and selected pu-piis cither in France or in the Dominions.
The life of the child is, therefore, nowadays much more interesting than it used to be. Whether it will be more profitable to him in the long ran, is another matter; but at any rate he or she will look back on early experiences with more agreeable recollections than the majority of those who were trained in the Victorian era. In any case the result will be that we shall train men and women though we may have fewer book-worms. Whereat we need feel no great Pexixc, Aug. 10.—A mandate has been issued, appointing Mr. Wellington Koo China's representative to the League of Nations.—Reuter.
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