School Curricula
Snt,—I am in full agreement with the Headmaster of Middlesbrough High School in his insistence on the value of the discipline of languages and mathematics for those pupils in......
Commonest Bird ?
What is the commonest bird? Those who have especially studied the statistics of the subject say the blackbird and the chaffinch, which exceed in numbers, so it is said, even the......
Country Life
A CERTAIN leadership in the campaign, which becomes more vigorous, against the pollution,of our rivers, is being given by the British Society of Field Sports. It is wise and......
In My Garden
This year more than ever before I have enjoyed feasts of wild straw- berry, both in the raw and in jam. They have fruited in the wild in unusual profusion ; and I am convinced......
A Threat To The Lords
Aneurin Bevan's claptrap about the Will of the People and his feeble.. threats to the House of Lords recall the observation of a great member of that House and a great Prime......
Voluntary Welfare Work
SIR, —I have been most interested by Lady Iris Capell's article Effort on Offer, and find myself in a glow of agreement that Acts of Parliament alone are rarely able to bring......
Drinks From Apples
ThOse excellent drinks, cider and perry, brewed widely in England for some 800 years or more. need-special varieties of apple and pear, because . these contain more tannin as......
Distance No Object
Sm,—Can it be that such a man or god as Janus is not a member of the Society for Pure English and does not know its thirty-sixth tract, published in 1931 and ccntaining a......
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Life In Cyprus
Sta,—Mr. Moore-Bennett's statements in your issue of July 11th about the cost of living in Cyprus astonished me. I lived in that island from May, 1945, to the end of March,......
V.d. In The Forces
SIR, —In a reply in the House recently Mr. Bellenger stated that the annual rate of venereal disease per 1,000 troops in 1946 was 32.8 for the British Army in Britain and 158.6......
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