MORE BAD LANGUAGE.
WHY BOYS NEED CANE. • BAD HOME INFLUENCE. Air P. H. B. Lyon, the 37-years-old rector of Edinburgh Academy, who has been appointed headmaster of Rugby, told a London Interviewer that there was more bad language in schools nowadays. “It Is a convention,” he said. “Boys use bad words unthinkingly, just as they always did. It Is not that the hoys are any worse. It Is merely that the conventional words are different, and some people might think them worse.
“Alv own valuation of boys is that the ali-'roumjer, who is good both at athletics and study, Js best. Next I place the student who is not good at games; and I place a boy who can do nothing well except play —-the type known In some schools as the ‘tough’—definitely last. “There are some boys who need corporal punishment and others wtio can be trained without it. There anight he less of it if there were fewer homes in which boys were spoiled. Very often we have to undo tiic harm of the home influence."
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18378, 11 July 1931, Page 4
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