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Dr. Charles Sleigh, of Strichen, Aberdeenshire, has, I belies- been

appointed chairman of the National Committee for the Trai ing of Teachers in Scotland. Reference to Who's Who shows long and varied Dr. Sleigh's experience in connexion with teachers training has been. But where decisions regarding young men women to teach youth are concerned, is octogenarianism the highes qualification? The new chairman was born in 1863.

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