On an occasion like this—the first Prize Distribution of a new school—which we hope to make an annual event, we do well, perhaps, to take to heart the advice sivan by a certain king of ancient history to an adversary who bad begun to regard his tas< as accomplished before he had realy be-sun,—" Let not him that putteth on his arnes boast himself as he that putteth it off," for, though we have existed as a school some two years, we still occupy temporary premises; and we should not reg rd our selves as firmly established until we move into the school house now being erected.
Tam afraid that for so small a school the report. will seem rather long, and my excuse is that ata first distribution much needs to be sid that need nut be repeated on w subsequent occasion.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.