OPPORTUNITY.
“ ‘ I feel there are dangers af the present time, both on parents’ and boys’ sides, of refusing to take opportunities,’ said Sir Gregory Foster, Provost of University College and Vice- 1 Chancellor of the University of London, in Harrow School Speech Room,” reports the “Sunday Times.” ‘There is a danger,’ he continued, ‘of going through routine things, because it is a matter of routine, and not diverging for a moment. One finds examples of Hint in a great hesitation on the part of parents, and of boys to some extent, to go out to the Dominions and other parts of the Empire. The spirit df enterprise that made the British Empire, the spirit of enterprise which we have got to possess to hold and develop that Empire, is not as obvious to-day as it was some years ago.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1929, Page 8
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139OPPORTUNITY. Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1929, Page 8
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