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  3. TEST CRICKETER TO ENLIST.

    Mr. Ben Barnett, wicketkeeper in the last Australian test team, and one of the three selectors, sent a telegraph message to the Minister for External ...

    Article : 517 words
  4. NEW SCIENCE PRESIDENT.

    Professor Ernest Scott, Professor of History in the University of Melbourne, delivering his presidential address to the 24th Science Congress at Canberra yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. SCIENCE CONGRESS IN FULL SWING.

    The 17 sections of the Science Congress were in the throes of serious business to-day. Particular interest was taken in the section devoted to education, psychology, and philosophy. Mr. J. R. Darling, headmaster of the Geelong Grammar ...

    Article : 134 words
  6. PROCESS OF GROWING UP.

    Present methods of education, especially what educationists call a general education, were criticised by Mr. J. R. Darling, headmaster of ...

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  7. (SCIENCE CONGRESS.—Continued.) STOPPING TRADE SLUMPS.

    The difficulties confronting economists in their search for panaceas to prevent trade depressions, were discussed by Mr. L. G. Melville, economic ...

    Article : 585 words
  8. RIDDLE OF THE GLACIERS.

    One of the riddles which is puzzling geologists all over the world is the continuous retreat of the ice glaciers. Does this phenomenon indicate that the ...

    Article : 312 words
  9. NAVAL BOARD CRITICISED.

    The Naval Board's administration regarding the naval reserve was criticised at the annual meeting of the mercantile marine branch of the Returned ...

    Article : 384 words
  10. EXPENDITURE ON DEFENCE.

    Economic problems involved in the financing of defence expansion, and measures to offset the harm which heavy defence expenditure might cause ...

    Article : 685 words
  11. UNSUITABLE TOYS.

    Miss Christine Heinig, of Columbia University, U.S.A., told members of the Congress this morning that many of the toys given to children, particularly ...

    Article : 128 words
  12. SINGING A VICTIM TO DEATH.

    Mr. A. Capell, who is at present engaged in anthropological investigations in the northern Kimberley area, and was unable to be present at the Science Congress, ...

    Article : 307 words
  13. SOME ABSTRUSE SUBJECTS.

    What is a blink comparator adn what does it compare? This question was asked by many people attending the Science Congress when they ...

    Article : 232 words
  14. PHARMACEUTICAL ADVANCES.

    Reviewing the progress of pharmaceutical science in the last 50 years, Dr. E. M. Watson, of the tutorial staff of the Perth Technical College, described before the pharmaceutical ...

    Article : 202 words
  15. NATIVE MUST HAVE GUIDANCE.

    Seventeen years among natives has convinced Mr. F. E. Williams, Government Anthropologist of Papua, that the natives cannot be left to go their own ...

    Article : 248 words
  16. ATMOSPHERE AS RAW MATERIAL.

    "The planetary stores of our elemental needs are being mined and dispersed at a rate that cannot go on." said Mr. Russell Grimwade, of Melbourne, in his presidential ...

    Article : 174 words
  17. WHEAT DISEASES.

    "Every year Australia loses £12,000,000 from plant diseases," was a statement made by Dr. W. L. Waterhouse, reader in agriculture at the ...

    Article : 152 words
  18. ROWERS' FATIGUE.

    Greater intensity of human work is developed by cyclists than by rowers, according to Dr. F. S. Cotton, of the Department of Physiology, Sydney University, who addressed ...

    Article : 131 words
  19. "NOT A FIT NATION."

    "In spite of our opportunities, we in Australia can scarcely be regarded as an outstandingly fit nation," said Dr. E. S. Morris, Director-General of Public Health in New ...

    Article : 143 words
  20. INTERCHANGE OF STUDENTS.

    In a special invitation address to the Botany section of the Science Congress Professor F. T. Brooks, professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge. England, described recent ...

    Article : 95 words
  21. DEATH OF MRS. EMILY CREAN.

    The death occurred on January 2 of Mrs. Emily Crean, of Scone. Born in New Zealand, Mrs. Crean came to Australia 23 years ago. Her husband, the late James Cameron Crean, ...

    Article : 94 words
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