4 JANUARY 1935, Page 10

It would be hard to think of a happier expe- ,

dient in connexion with geography lessons than the. arrangement (described at a meeting of the Geographical Association on Wednesday) whereby a particular tramp steamer is adopted by a particular elementary school, whose children follow the ship's wanderings over the globe, get letters from its officers and men at ports where they touch, and generally make the vessel's fortunes their own. School journeys are admirable ; so is correspondence between children of one country and those of another ; but the ship-adoption idea seems