382 SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.—L. M. 
Tis Solution. 
(a) Importance of recognition that from the moral training point of view the period 
of 8-12 years is as important, if not more important, as the years of puberty and 
adolescence. 
(b) The necessity for closer contact between parents and school leading to unity 
of purpose. The value of ‘ parents’ unions ’ to day schools as well as boarding schools. 
The possibility of the day school and the home being the ideal environment for moral 
training. 
(c) ‘The importance of harmony of purpose within the school itself—the special 
importance of the ideal underlying the organisation of (a) the school curriculum, and 
(b) corporate life being the same, the object being not so much the encouragement of 
conscious self-improvement and conformity to traditional type as self-emancipation 
—the losing of oneself to find oneself. 
This object attainable in the day school, if it becomes both for work and play a 
world which appeals to the boy as a world worth serving. The extent to which such an 
ideal can overcome the disadvantage, so far as moral training is concerned, of lack of 
harmony between home and school influences. 
AFTERNOON. 
12, Mr. Percy A. ScHotes.—Musical Education by means of the Player- 
Piano, Gramophone and Wireless. 
The growing ‘ musical public.’ Its lack of knowledge and of discrimination. The 
foundations of genuine ‘ appreciation.’ The use of mechanical means to acquaintance 
with a larger body of the ‘literature’ of music. The structure of music—to what 
extent does this concern the listener? The history of music—what does the 
intelligent listener need to know of this ?. The gramophone in the school and the home. 
Theinfluence of broadcasting. The player-piano, aneglected educational tool. Its two 
forms—that in which the ‘ interpretation ’ rests with the operator, and that in which 
the ‘ interpretation ’ of some great pianist is reproduced. Comparison of ‘ interpre- 
tations’ by different pianists, and the light it sheds upon principles of artistic 
performance. General conclusions as to the place of ‘mechanical-musical’ aids to 
education. 
SECTION M.—AGRICULTURE. 
(For references to the publication elsewhere of communications entered in the 
following list of transactions, see page 393.) 
Thursday, August 27. 
1. Joint Discussion with Section F. (See page 329.) 
Friday, August 28. 
2. Mr. R. D. Rece.—A Thermophilic Fungus, and its Action on the 
Carbohydrates of Straw. 
3. Discussion on The Place of Cereal Growing in British Agriculture. 
Sir Henry Rew, K.C.B.—The Position and Prospects of Corn- 
growing in England. 
The extent of land used for agriculture in England and Wales is 70 per cent. of 
the total area, excluding 13 per cent. used for rough grazing. Of the agricultural 
land, 42 per cent. is in arable cultivation, of which 50.4 per cent. is under corn crops, 
and of the land under corn wheat occupies 28 per cent. Fifty years ago 61 per cent. 
of the land used for agriculture was under the plough. Corn then occupied 51.2 per 
cent. of the arable land, and wheat formed 42 per cent. of the corn crops. 
The decline of arable cultivation has been discussed voluminously and volubly. 
Arable land in ordinary, as distinct from specialised, farming, implies corn-growing, 
