A FORECAST FULFILLED.
"I proposo," said Sir Charles Ferguson, "to touch on thfl. part which this hall is destined to play in the life of tho school. When these buildings were erected, now some fifty-two.years ngo, the ceromony was one in which my father participated. Tho part which this school was to play in tho history Of this Dominion was. then envisaged, and t!ic "forecasts were more than fully justified. But after all the highest form of education is not so much that of the brain as i of character. . Great as has boon tho part played .by Wellington College in Bending forth its Bons into tho world, who have taken leading places in the cities and. .provinces, I think it will always be the proudest boa3t of Wellington College to turn to that wonderful record of tho. patriotism of its sons in the late Great Wnr. luse the term patriotism'advisedly, because one. definition of patriotism which applies specially, on occasions such as this is self-respect of ; race. After all, we cannot but believe that it was the character that theso boys' and men gained at this college which gave them that wonderful spirit of patriotism which so distinguished them in that conflict."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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203A FORECAST FULFILLED. Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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