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DER NEUEN HEIM ER.
In view of this competition and of the increasing interest in Photo-
graph)', the dark-room will be thoroughly renovated and will undergo
many improvements during the Easter Vac. It is to be hoped that this
competition will be taken up more generally than its predecessors have
been and that the number of competitors and the merit of the work sent
in may fully justify the awarding of the Prizes.
The Competition closes on the löth July.
-o-
ABOUT BREAKING UP.
Of that supremest of joys to the schoolboy of less than half a
century ago, " breaking up " for the holidays, the modern youngster
knows comparatively nothing. The very phrase, we believe, says " The
Standard," has fallen into disuse, and the schools of to-day "disperse,"
"separate," or "adjourn," not for holidays, but vacations. Nor is the
reason far to seek. The fathers of half a century ago deemed the school
life of their boys luxurious when they recalled their own stern, hard
experiences, and shook their heads ominously as they foretold a soft,
degenerate race as the result. Not only was school discipline stricter,
not only was less attention paid to the comfort of the boys, but the great
gulf between master and pupil had not been bridged as it has been
since, and the boy himself was more of an animal than he is now. Hence
the life of a small boy, perhaps not very strong, perhaps not very bright,
was often, a continuous penance, and hence the joy of approaching
emancipation was of an intensity and purity never to be exceeded by any
happiness in after life. Nowadays the transfer from school to home is
merely a transfer from one state of happy existence to another. Boys
part from their masters not as from natural enemies but as from good
friends, but in old days such an idea as a boy asking his house master to
his home, or of meeting him during holiday time as a fellow traveller or
as a sharer in recreation, would have been terrifying. So "breaking-up"
really has been reduced to saying good-bye to good friends and to a bliss-
ful condition of life for a few weeks.
Of old it was very different. As in most delights, the joy of
anticipation was almost as marked as the joy of the supreme moment.
The radiancy of the coming day shed its ray over the young mind long
DER NEUEN HEIM ER.
In view of this competition and of the increasing interest in Photo-
graph)', the dark-room will be thoroughly renovated and will undergo
many improvements during the Easter Vac. It is to be hoped that this
competition will be taken up more generally than its predecessors have
been and that the number of competitors and the merit of the work sent
in may fully justify the awarding of the Prizes.
The Competition closes on the löth July.
-o-
ABOUT BREAKING UP.
Of that supremest of joys to the schoolboy of less than half a
century ago, " breaking up " for the holidays, the modern youngster
knows comparatively nothing. The very phrase, we believe, says " The
Standard," has fallen into disuse, and the schools of to-day "disperse,"
"separate," or "adjourn," not for holidays, but vacations. Nor is the
reason far to seek. The fathers of half a century ago deemed the school
life of their boys luxurious when they recalled their own stern, hard
experiences, and shook their heads ominously as they foretold a soft,
degenerate race as the result. Not only was school discipline stricter,
not only was less attention paid to the comfort of the boys, but the great
gulf between master and pupil had not been bridged as it has been
since, and the boy himself was more of an animal than he is now. Hence
the life of a small boy, perhaps not very strong, perhaps not very bright,
was often, a continuous penance, and hence the joy of approaching
emancipation was of an intensity and purity never to be exceeded by any
happiness in after life. Nowadays the transfer from school to home is
merely a transfer from one state of happy existence to another. Boys
part from their masters not as from natural enemies but as from good
friends, but in old days such an idea as a boy asking his house master to
his home, or of meeting him during holiday time as a fellow traveller or
as a sharer in recreation, would have been terrifying. So "breaking-up"
really has been reduced to saying good-bye to good friends and to a bliss-
ful condition of life for a few weeks.
Of old it was very different. As in most delights, the joy of
anticipation was almost as marked as the joy of the supreme moment.
The radiancy of the coming day shed its ray over the young mind long