Snobbery-Denounced As Detestable Affectation
“The main thing I want to impress on you is that althpugh you attend this college and your parents are required to pay for you to come here, you are no better than boys attending any public school in this city,” the Very Rev J. Lawson Robinson, chairman of St Andrew’s College Board of Governors at the annual prize-giving ceremony recently. “I do hope there is no feeling of class distinction amongst you: Snobbery, to me, is a detestable affectation. Our object in founding this college was to give the boys of our church and the community a good cnowledge based on the truths and traditions Of Christianity,” continued Mr Robinson, “We don’t want to turn you into pious little pigs, but into boys who will love their books and games, and who, as they grow up, will maintain the traditions of the land in which they were born.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 60, 25 June 1948, Page 7
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