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cried the politicians, " but what of those who are at the bottorr 

 and have none to serve them ? " " Let them serve well,' 

 said the philosopher, " and they shall soon be at the top. 

 Serve your master well, and he shall serve you well, and you 

 shall both be crowned. Nothing that a man can do may be 

 higher than this — to serve well ; and nothing that a man 

 can do may be lower than this — to serve no one. Not by 

 your rights but by your duties shall you become gods." 



The General Meeting of the Association of Public School Science Masters 

 (C. L. Bryant, M.A., B.Sc.) 



The nineteenth Annual General Meeting of the above Association was held at 

 the London Day Training College on December 31 and January 1. An important 

 change was made in the constitution. The Association owes its birth in 1900 

 to four Eton masters, who have not yet laid down the burden of their work 

 at that school— Dr. T. C. Porter, and Messrs. W. D. Eggar, M. D. Hill, 

 and H. de Havilland. The membership was restricted, almost exclusively, to 

 schools of the Headmasters' Conference ; for it was thought that there were 

 special problems connected with the public schools which waited for solution. 

 Many of these have now been solved. Against few only of the best of such 

 schools can the charge still be made that the opportunities for good work in 

 science are not sufficient. Those, too, who have read the series of resolutions 

 passed in January last by the members of the Headmasters' Conference and the 

 Association of Headmasters in Joint Session must have been struck by the 

 recognition given to the value of science in education by those who are in the best 

 position to advance the teaching of the subject. Two of these resolutions read 

 as follows : 



That suitable instruction in natural science should be included in the 

 curriculum of preparatory schools, of the upper standards of elementary 

 schools, and of all boys in public and other secondary schopls up to the age 

 of about sixteen. 



That mathematics and natural science should be necessary subjects in the 

 entrance scholarship examinations of public schools, in the first school 

 examination, and in the examinations for entrance into the Navy and the 

 Army ; provided that good work in other subjects should compensate for 

 comparative weakness in mathematics and natural science, and vice versd. 



This is a striking expression of opinion about a subject which, until recently, 

 was often regarded with suspicion, if not with active disfavour. 



Perhaps it was a feeling that their position had been won in the public schools 

 which inclined the Association to broaden its membership so as to include science 

 masters in all types of secondary schools, and to change the name accordingly to 

 "The Science Masters' Association." Mr. W. D. Eggar, of Eton College, one of 

 the original founders, is fortunately to take a leading part, as General Secretary, 

 in directing the activities of the bigger Association. One of the first tasks it has 

 undertaken is the starting of a quarterly magazine entitled The School Science 

 Review, which will be issued first in May from, it is hoped, the same press as 

 Science Progress. Mr. G. H. J. Adlam (City of London School) will act as 

 Editor. 



