… EXACTLY ten years ago, Urdd Gobaith Cymru crept into being, lacking both a clear vision and a definite policy. It originated from a feeling…
… EXACTLY ten years ago, Urdd Gobaith Cymru crept into being, lacking both a clear vision and a definite policy. It originated from a feeling that the youth movements already in the country did not quite fulfil the needs and aspirations of Wales. As time went on, the movement grew in num- bers-by to-day close on forty thousand boys and girls have joined its ranks, apart from the tens of thousands of adults who have…
… tradition and language-that is their inspiration. The same inspiration lies behind our annual pilgrimages to the homes of famous Welshmen. This coming summer there…
… tradition and language-that is their inspiration. The same inspiration lies behind our annual pilgrimages to the homes of famous Welshmen. This coming summer there will be pilgrimages to the homes of South Wales as well as those of North Wales. And all this inspiration and work are given an international bias by our annual pilgrimage to Geneva. The Urdd is the only Youth Movement that goes annually and officially to visit the League of…
… THERE are few more familiar characters in fiction than Don Quixote, the Knight of La Mancha, whom men thought mad. No doubt he was…
… THERE are few more familiar characters in fiction than Don Quixote, the Knight of La Mancha, whom men thought mad. No doubt he was so according to worldly standards, for his head was hot with enthusiasm for an ideal order of society in which justice should reign and the weak should be protected against the oppres- sor. Such men are dangerous in a society in which power and wealth secure privilege, and when they…
… profoundly in spirit from the originals on which they are based and are the result of an elaborate process of purification and idealisation to…
… profoundly in spirit from the originals on which they are based and are the result of an elaborate process of purification and idealisation to suit them to Victorian prejudices. The French Rom- ances are quite frankly brutal and immoral, but they have a vigour which is lacking- in Tenny- son's polite paraphrase. There is, for example, in the love of Tristan a sublime fatality, an over- whelming and devastating passion that carries him away…
… EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS OF THE SOUTH WALES COALFIELD. THIS pamphlet, No. 88, Educational Pamphlets of the Board of Education, is the result of an investigation…
… EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS OF THE SOUTH WALES COALFIELD. THIS pamphlet, No. 88, Educational Pamphlets of the Board of Education, is the result of an investigation conducted by the Board of Education and a committee of its officers appointed in July, 1930. In a prefatory note over the signature of the Permanent Secre- tary, Sir Percy E. Watkins, the object of the inquiry is stated to have been the extent of the statutory and voluntary provision…
… pered. The enormous natural advantages of the area in steel production should have made it easily possible to build up a large scale industry…
… pered. The enormous natural advantages of the area in steel production should have made it easily possible to build up a large scale industry in, say, bridges, locomotives, motor cars, electrical en- gineering. etc., or even in the new industries of wireless set making or artificial silk, the basis of which is in steel and chemicals but no, this has not taken place, and the result is that once the coal export trade dwindled…
… WE lament "the tender grace of days that are dead," often enough with but a faint conception of the precise nature and extent of…
… WE lament "the tender grace of days that are dead," often enough with but a faint conception of the precise nature and extent of those days. Such is the glamour of distance, be it of time or of space. "Yr Hen Amser Gynt" is used rather indiscriminately, it may range from the time of our immediate grand- fathers, through the middle distance of the eighteenth and the seventeenth centuries, or even back to Tudor…
… SCHOOL IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES by D. Davies WHEN I was six years old my family removed from a rural to a populous industrial…
… SCHOOL IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES by D. Davies WHEN I was six years old my family removed from a rural to a populous industrial district. In our new home I was escorted to school in the morning by my father. In the afternoon I went alone, and it is perhaps not surprising that the sameness of the school buildings, consisting of mixed, boys', and girls' departments, confused me; and when a female teacher in…
… ment on finding that the book dealt with no parti- cular part of this world, and that Gulliver was far from my ideal of…
… ment on finding that the book dealt with no parti- cular part of this world, and that Gulliver was far from my ideal of a traveller or explorer. Noting my dissatisfaction, my father effected an exchange for "A Ride to Khiva," by Col. Burnaby. More enjoyable were later readings of "Bruce's Travels in Abyssinia"; Speke, Grant and Burton's "Jour- neyings in Equatorial Africa" and Mungo Park's "Travels in the Niger Country" possibly because of…
… knuckles, with ingrained dirt mixed with blood- stains, spoke eloquently of the passion for marble- playing. Trundling of hoops was a great pastime and…
… knuckles, with ingrained dirt mixed with blood- stains, spoke eloquently of the passion for marble- playing. Trundling of hoops was a great pastime and in the evenings a run of a mile or more from our village to the next was the usual and proper thing to do. A football was beyond our dreams, and any boy who was "persona grata" with the local butcher, and could secure from the slaughter- house a bladder…
… BOOKS FOR THE NEW YEAR by Professor G. A. Edwards, M.A., Bala THIS UNEMPLOYMENT: DISASTER OR OPPORTUNITY? By V. A. Demant, B.Litt., B.Sc. S.C.M.…
… BOOKS FOR THE NEW YEAR by Professor G. A. Edwards, M.A., Bala THIS UNEMPLOYMENT: DISASTER OR OPPORTUNITY? By V. A. Demant, B.Litt., B.Sc. S.C.M. Pp. 1-158. 1931. 4s (cloth) and 2s 6d. THE APPROACH TO RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN SUNDAY SCHOOL & DAY SCHOOL. By Basil A. Yeaxlee, Ph.D. S.C.M. Pp. 1-144. 1931. 4s (cloth) and 2s 6d. THE MASTERY OF SEX THROUGH PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION. By Leslie D. Weatherhead. S.C.M. Pp. 1--253. 1931. 5s.…
… of the philosophy of religion made it impossible to give adequate attention to Psychology or to History, and thus the important work ot Speng-…
… of the philosophy of religion made it impossible to give adequate attention to Psychology or to History, and thus the important work ot Speng- ler is unnoticed. Dr. Ed. Lyttelton in his vigor- ous book entitled Whither ? A Study of Shams and Safeguards, lustily exposes many of the former, of which the chief is a counterfeit Christianity which casts its spell over very large sections of our population," and then he seeks to…