Birmingham was held yesterday at the University, Edmund Street. The
Pro-Vice-Chancellor said the University had done its share in the
present awful state of Europe."--_Birmingham Daily Post_.

We are sorry to hear this.

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"The Government have apparently taken infinite pains to so 'cut their
coast according to their cloth' as to provide for the least possible
inconvenience and suffering to the people of these islands."--_Cork
Constitution._

Thanks to this wise provision there is still just enough coast to go round.

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From the report of a schoolmasters' conference:--

"That we should spread our education wider, and not allow a boy to
spend too much time on specialising is a good idea, but it is rather
difficult to carry out in practice. It means switching the boy's mind
from one subject to another. The whole day is spent in this
way--switching from one subject to another, and therefore it is very
difficult."--_United Empire_.

And it sounds painful too.

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