SCHOLASTIC PROGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 8

SCHOLASTIC PROGRESS.

Earl .Carrington, .Minister of ; the . Board ) of Agriculture, .performed tho opening cere- ' mony of tho r and', the .new I workshop; and at tlie ;i ' Borough »' Polytechnic:. Institute recently;/:; His .Lord- > ship,; in a reminiscent opening\address, »' that ■ similar institutions ,did not; exist : in' his i boyhood, and ' when" he viewed ■ those , around him that.evening he.felt 1 almost one'of the I- most, imperfectly educated mta'in, ; the; ! ro6m.' 1 He - attended •one of the greatest' schools 'of j ' England, .. but ;in .' their curriculum, math'emat-' ics and the other studies; obtainable at the Borough' Polytechnic . .were not 'included, i There were no classes' for . modern lan- ' guages, and no music.' /.'When ; 'he was 'at ' school, which'was'more than fifty years ago, there was only one boy. who had a piano. 5 When Ms father was at school 106 years ago there was only one (boy who had'a Prayer 5 Book—and-that boy was called Peter Pious. ' (Laughter.).'-Nowadays, public life and the ■ highest positions -of '.tho State!;were open 1 to. everybody. For seven, of the' fifteen 'years : he was on the L;C.C.' he 1 was: chairman "of the' Housing .' Committee. • .Goodi; work done by that : 'committee was performed'because the committee had their heart niid soul in j the business,/and no section was more help-' " 'ful or more' devoted to 1 their 'work than' the Labour members of it. "Their practical 2 knowledge was absolutely invaluable. ' ' i .