SCHOOL DISCIPLINE
IMPOSITIONS OF OLD WRITING "100 LINES" LONDON, Sept. 18. Impositions are not a modem form of punishment for boys, according to Professor Leonard Woolley, who, lecturing on discoveries at lit of the Chaldees, said that he had found a chr* tablet on which an offending scholar of Nebuchadnezzar's days had had .to write 100 times lines about Ur being the greatest city in the world. The penmanship, the lecturer stated, had gradually become worse as the , task ncared completion.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17155, 4 October 1926, Page 9
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81SCHOOL DISCIPLINE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17155, 4 October 1926, Page 9
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