PEOPLING AN EMPIRE.
, BEGIN IN THE SCHOOLS.;. ENGLISH HEADMASTERS'. ACTION, liy Telegraph—Press ■ '■':■.-.•...■•. .-'.-:- London,; December 23.'• At the Headmasters'; Conference, Dr.' H. B. Gray/of. Bradfleld College, Berkproposed -a resolution.! welcoming the devtlopment of the Public Schools League for. land. settlement in the oversoas dominions, and. recommending the' governing bodies of. schools to. mako annual grants to enable a central office to bq established: in London. , ':■' ::'' ;■ ■ In; proposing. tho'resolution,' Dγ; Gray referred to the 'American immigration/invasion of Canada, and' asied would' the Union Jack or the; Stars ■ and Stripes fly over the Government offices in Ottawa fifty,years hence,!- Parents, he said, had previously, sent-.their foilures -'"..'to the colonies, and ho attributed the failure of public school boys in the colonies to their lack of purpose, adaptability, -arid selfreliance. • Australians and Canadians abominated swagger. ' ■ ' V . ;The;Eev. A. W. Upcott, D.D., Principal of. Christ's Hospital,' suggested ithat a capital fund be created to prevent dosorving boys being hampered by want of capital.; . . '~.'■■.'• /'. '-.." . y -.-■ : The resolution was carried. ' ■'■■_■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 699, 27 December 1909, Page 5
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163PEOPLING AN EMPIRE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 699, 27 December 1909, Page 5
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