IN PASSING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19792, 12 November 1927, Page 7 (Supplement)

IN PASSING.

The demand nowadays is for a house with a small nursery and a large garage. —Rev. Ronald A. Knox.

Vitality and a multiplicity of geniuses are the outstanding features of the present age.—Dr. C. B. Rootham.

I consider that one of the greatest needs of our time is for better music in our parish churches.—Mr. S. 11. Nicholson. In regard to certain biological facts the Victorian age 'thought it helped you by putting on blipkers.—Sir Ilalford Mackinder.

Life is a long race, and those who are quick off the mark may be caught up or oven passed in middle or later life.—Sir Maurice Craig.

Cold, grey, purposeless memorial columns meet you everywhere, and less*'and less many are recollecting what they stand for., —Mr. .7. M. Bryson. Teachers must think of their work not as a process of " injecting " knowledge, but of " infecting " pupils with knowledge.—Mr. Frank Roscoe. I don't know why girls are called flappers, for they don't flap. A better name would be spanners, as they turn the heads of the " knuts." —Lord Swansea. A dead man's debts cannot be paid out of workmen's compensation granted to the widow; that is for the benefit of the widow and children.—Judge Turner (Doncaster).