MODERN BOY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 179, 30 July 1932, Page 9

MODERN BOY.

SEVERE CRITICISM. Consequences of War Seen in Growing Youth. PRINCE AT B.M.A. CONFERENCE. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, July 20. The Prince of Wales was the guest of honour last evening at the centenary dinner of the British Medical Association—one of the largest ever held in London. There were 2000 guests in the Albert Hall.' • His Royal Higheess emphasised the Imperial aspects of the association's work. He eaid it was encouraging to think how many overseas members were present in that great company. Sir Henry S. Newland, as president of the Australian and New Zealand Colleges of Surgeons, responded to the toast of the guests. . The day's general discussion by the association was largely devoted to the characteristics and management of postwar children. Mr. C. H. Blakiston, headmaster of St. Mary and St. Nicholas College (Lancing College), uttered a startling criticism of the modern boy. He said that by comparison with the boy of 30 years ago he was timid, untruthful and dishonest. He expected to be taken everywhere. Above all, he feared loneliness and boredom. Consequently the old spirit of adventure was destroyed. The war had had a definite result upon those who were infants in the period 1914-18. Consequently there were numerous young people who worked feebly and played feebly. Dr. W. H. Simpson, of Wellington, New Zealand, read a striking paper on sub-scleral injections, which is a new operation for the detachment of the retina, likely to replace the existing methods.