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. LONG-WINDED ANSWERS IN SCHOOL PAPERS “Girl scholars can’t . , give a short answer to at question; they write three times as much.os boys,” said the Rev. the Hon. E. Lyttelton, a former headmaster pf Eton: and now Dean of JVhiteland’a College, Chelsea; speaking at Barnett School, Hampstead. He never found anything exquisitely funny in girls’ examination papers as he did in an average hatch of hoys I “Intolerable bosh;” 1 Was talked by the hour in hotels, he said, alludiqg to the . value of sight-reading musio. “Think what a different thing our lives would be if there igore at hotels as we travelled about - the country people who would willingly unite i’' singing choruses and part songs,’ 1 ’said Dr Lyttelton. / Incredibly few hoys at 17 dr 18 had a real thirst for knowledge for its own sake, but at seven a hoy was quite anxious to learn.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12394, 13 March 1926, Page 9
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149VERBOSE GIRLS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12394, 13 March 1926, Page 9
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