WHAT THE BOYS TAUGHT THE HEADMASTER

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2897, 9 October 1916, Page 8

WHAT THE BOYS TAUGHT THE HEADMASTER

: 9 r - THE GREAT CLASS WHICH REDEEMED ITSELF. Deart'AYelldon, addressing the boys of Harrow School, of •which he used to be headmaster, said:— "I dread to take lip the paper and to sec day by day the lift of killed aid wounded and the names of men I have known. Your roll of honour is growing day by day. I think of men. I havo known as boys in all the brightness, beauty, hopefulness, and promise of their youth. They have gono beforehand into the unseen world, and I can only say that whatever lesson I may have tried to teach them in the day£ that are crone, it is .nothing in comparison to the lesson they and their lives and deaths havo taught me. "Eton, as the larger school, must have suffered even more than Harrow. May I say, as one who has lived among the great operative population, that the rich, privileged class of Great Britain has redeemed itself in the eyes of the working men by the serviccs'it has rendered to the country. I go into the great munition works, and 1 know what the unreasonable feeling of tlie working mon towards tho boys and men of their class has been. That feeling has disappeared; there is nothing in'the working classes of to-day hut respect for the aristocracy in regard' to the war.