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“ ATROCIOUS ENGLISH IN PAPERS” (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dee. 14. “I consider the English papers set for the School Certificate and University Entrance Examinations as examples of atrocious English,” said Mr K. W. R. Glasgow, headmaster of Scots College, at the prize-giving ceremony last evening. “The boys have to wade through a mass of material that has no relation to modern life at all. It is all mixed up. There is too much variation in the standards from year to year and between subject and subject.” His greatest protest was that a solid and detailed knowledge, particularly in history and geography, was discounted by too many vague questions, the meaning of which was obscure and which gave what he considered to be an advantage to the glib student over the solid and conscientious one. Mr Glasgow said he disagreed with a proposal to make English a compulsory subject in the University Entrance Examination in 1950. “While I believe every boy should take English at school. I do not think he should have to take it for his entrance examination,” he said.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25678, 15 December 1948, Page 2
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