SCHOOL HOWLERS.
MENTIONED BY THE MASTERS.. Sopie delightful "howlers" were mentioned at tho conference yesterday of the secondary school teachers, and tho scholars wern not alone, the laugh in many cases being against tho teachers themselves. One delegate, for instance, said that a teacher, when asked to draw a ma)) of Australia and Now Zealand, put the latter off tho west coast of tho former, whilst another teacher, drawing a map of tho Canadian-Pacific railway, transposed Vancouver and Quebec. Still another teacher, when writing an essay on three famous explorers, 1 ) said that "Livingstone explored Canterbury." As to tho scholars, ono said: "Tho verb which agrees with its subject is the first discord." Another, when asked to form a sentence of words containing tho first person and a conjunction, wrote down "First person—Adam." Asked tho difference between "practice" and "practise" one scholar said tho first was masculine and the second was feminine, while another said one was in tho present tense and tlib other was in tho past tense.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1847, 5 September 1913, Page 2
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169SCHOOL HOWLERS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1847, 5 September 1913, Page 2
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