James Stewart Lockhart, ssid that be felt diffident in appearing before them that day, because it was the third oocasion on which be had had the temerity to come before them and try to tell them something about education. They all knew the o'd saying, that the ancients bad stolen all the best ideas. There was very little ity in this world, the latest smart hat was only a Inter edition of " former glory, the only unchanging concomitant of it bring the meet face to imagination. sething original to say, bat he hoped he might be allowed to make some remark son the report which Mr. Boer bad read. in the first place he congratulated the school on the numbers it had resched, (Cheers.) The pupils had increased from forty-four last year to fifty-five this year. Heremembered that on the first occasion op which he distributed the prizes there were only a very few pupils and that was not so many years ago. Now the number bad more than quintupled, (Cheers.)
He congratulated the who had fleshed their swords in examination. He hoped that their efforte would be attended with the same success in future, and that victory would always theirs. (Cheers.) He believed there wore certain difficulties io the way of their taking the Oxford or Cambridge Local Examinstions, bat he boped that they would be got over, and be felt sare that the Weihsiwei boys would be as saccessfal in these examinations, as they had been in those they had passed. He was pleased to bear of the success of Grimble. (Obeers.) As father, be thought thst Mr. Grimble bed a great deal to do with that suees.
There was such " thing as heredity, and he knew the grandfather, the father and the son. Mr. Grimble was an excellent swimmer, cricketer and footballer, and also excelled in music. Not unnatarslly the son has followed in the paternal footsteps. They would agree with bim that fathers should not be forgotten on these occasions. If " man had good forbears, the chances were that his son would be good also. The boys would be fathers themselves one day, and as their qualities might be reproduced la their sons, they should strive to acquire qualities which would be " credit to themselves and those who would come after them. " The Child is Father of the Man," and the qualities scquired in youth are these that will be of
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