"PEACE WITH VICTORY"
Sir, —-I -beg leavo to offer you my sincere thanks for your valuable leader in to-day's Dominion on "Peace with Victory." It suggests, to my .mind, the question whether there is not aii lindeh'nable something—perhaps impatience —in the professional instinct' which finds outlet either by keeping in the whole school, sor punishing the wrong group. There is a well-known story, vouched for by Mr. Gladstone, of a famous headmaster of ono of the great schools in the Old Country. Hβ found some lads "sent up" to be flogged (as ho thought), and straightway whipped the batch—this, notwithstanding attempts at explanation. Finishing the unlovely work, he listened to reason and discovered, all too late, that these were no culprits, but candidates for confirmation, and were seeking preparatory instruction! Can there not be. detected in Professor Wilson's pronouncements a slight tendency to whip the confirmation candidates?—l am, etc.,
HOLD THE BALANCE LEVEL. January 25, 1917. - ,
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2987, 26 January 1917, Page 6
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156"PEACE WITH VICTORY" Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2987, 26 January 1917, Page 6
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