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2. That teachers be encouraged to include among physical exercises 
children’s singing games and the old English Morris dances. 
3. That finding how small an amount of time in school is at present 
reserved to small children for recreation, the Committee urge that the 
learning to read and write be delayed for twelve months, and the time 
thus set free be devoted to playing and resting in a room free from form 
and desk furniture, and having a lavatory adjoining it. 
4. That education authorities be asked to allow the playing of games, 
other than cricket and football, in spaces already allotted in parks for 
games; and also to provide such spaces where not provided at present, in 
order that the voluntary helpers may have opportunities for teaching 
games to girls and small children. 
Ventilation of School Buildings. 
At the instigation of the Committee, a series of observations have 
been carried out during the last year on the relation of symptoms of 
mental fatigue in school children, whilst at work, to different conditions 
of ventilation. The results promise to be very instructive. The observa- 
tions, however, require a long period of time, and are not yet complete. 
Moreover, further observations are required on the movements of air- 
currents in occupied rooms, and on the complicated problems involved in 
the provision of pure air equally distributed to each occupant of a room, 
before authoritative statements can be made on this subject. 
The Committee desire to be reappointed, and ask te be allowed to 
use the unexpended portion of the grant made in 1906, for the hire of 
instruments for investigations in hearing tests for school use. 
Curricula of Secondary Schools.—Report of the Committee, consisting 
of Sir Otiver LopGE (Chairman), Mr. C. M. Sruarr (Secretary), 
Mr. T. E. Pace, Professors M. E. SapLer, H. E. ARMSTRONG, 
and J. Perry, Sir Partie Maanos, Principal Grirrirus, Dr. H. B. 
Gray, Professor H. A. Miers, Mr. A. E. SmipLey, Professor 
J. J. Finpiay, and Sir WitLiaM Huaeins, appointed to consider 
and to advise as to the Curricula of Secondary Schools ; in the first 
instance, the Curricula of Boys’ Schools. 
Tae Committee submit for consideration the following conclusions which 
they have reached as the result of their debates :— 
1. There is need for secondary schools of different types, with different 
curricula or combinations of curricula : because 
(a) All boys are not suited to the same course of study. 
(6) The requirements of the various callings upon which the boys will 
subsequently enter differ considerably. 
(c) The needs of the schools differ in a considerable degree according 
to the economic conditions of the districts in which they are situated. 
Broadly speaking, however, the secondary schools fall into two 
different types—viz., those in which the majority of boys remain till 
eighteen or nineteen, and then continue their education at places of 
