SIXTH PRIME MINISTER FROM HARROW.

Shannon News, 27 July 1926, Page 2

SIXTH PRIME MINISTER FROM HARROW.

MD BALDWIN AT HIS OLD SCHOOJ

LONDON, June 3. Air Baldwin, who is fire sixth Harrovian to become Prime Minister, or England, was present at tire opening of tile Harrow School War Memorial Buildings yesterday. The memorial is of a stone cloister with a high vaulted roof . On stone tablets are the names of Harrovians who fell in the war. This leads to Die memorial buildings, which coiTsisi of a large and beautiful ceremonial vhali on the ground floor, with rooms above. A total of £90,000 was suberibed to the war memorial fund.

The archbishop, who dedicated the cloisters, mentioned that at one time a headmaster of Harrow and four boys under him, each of whom became a Prime Minister of -England. Mr Baldwin said that

In 1914 every boy, though he seldom said,it, knew that lie had to pass through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and lie knew that he might never emerge from it. That knowledge left mark's upon the character of thousands of 'Englishmen that will never be obliterated, however long they live. If the generation of 1914 could send a message across the years to the generation of 1926 they would speak to them in the words used by Socrates when lie left the court under sentence of death, and said: “And now the time has come for us to go our ways, 1 to death and you to life, but which of us has the better lot is known to none but. God.’’ Death is easy, and is very hard, and it is not going "to be an easy life for those who are now entering upon or at the point of entering manhood. Just as at the time of the Renaissance Ilie age devoted itself to intellectual inquiry, so to-day it is devoting itself to social inquiry, and ah of you will have to justify yourselves of the advantages you have received.. There is no toil like that of trying to mend things, trying to make the world better and happier. Time after time you will find your work destroyed, your best efforts misunderstood ®and you will be derided.. Yet in spite of all that there is nothing for if but to go on in faith if you mean to accomplish anything.