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The Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger.
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lantern, and in the event of their being favourable to obtain the necessary number of lanterns.
Mrs. Martin—Why put the proposal in the hands of the teachers? Surely we as a Board can say whether the lantern is to be put in or not. Any teacher worthy of the name would welcome it.
The Rev. Canon Holder said it would be well for them to defer the matter tio the teachers, seeing that it was so wéll known that the School Board of Dundee did not enjoy a high position as an educational] body. (Great laughter.)
The Rev. D. B. Cameron, the chairman, thought the children should be thrown upon their own mental resources and allowed to exercise their mental faculties instead of having everything done by symbols.
The Rev. George Smart approved of the lantern on the ground that they required something to attract the pupils to the evening schools.
Mr. Mudie said he would not go into the question of whether Mr. MacMacdonald and he were antiquated, but possibly if Mra. Martin—he believed she had been engaged in teaching for some time—had been longer 4 teacher, her opinion would have been somewhat modified. As to Dundee taking a seat at the bottom of School Boards in the country, he pointed out that the Dundse
Silhouelfe Slides. By. Tie200Re JBROuN.
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eA HE present silhouette slide is a little Ry more complicated in its construction than its predecessors, but the effect produced is well worth the little extra trouble entailed, and if the directions here given are carefully followed out, and close attention be given to the diagrams, the reader should experience little difficulty in making this
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Board had more excellent results in the ordinary schools than were obtained ijn the ordinary schools elsewhere. He had been told that in Edinburgh only one school had got excellent in all its three departments, and the master was publicly thanked by the Board for it. In almost every one of the Dundee schools “excellent had been obtained in all the departments. He did not think it was by magic lanterns they would get ‘excellent’ from Her Majesty’s inspector. (Hear, hear.) — Mr. Dunbar’s proporal to consult the teachers was adopted by the casting vote of the chairman. ;
It depicts, as seen from the heading, a clown
air by a brother clown.
Two glasses only are used in the construction of this slide (both of which are fixed), but. one. is used merely as a cover glass., On the. other, . i ig fitted up the parts of the clown who kicks | the football. ;
The other working parts are, attached : to; the ‘
kicking a football through a hoop held in mid3