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love for his own peculiar School, all alike will have an 

 interest in their common College, all alike be proud of a 

 national institution, jealous of its honour, and eager to 

 advance its welfare. 



" It is a common thino' to hear the bitterness of religious 

 discord here deplored. I for one, looking back on the history 

 of past years, cannot think, as some seem to do, that it has 

 increased. On the contrary, it seems to me that it has greatly 

 diminished in violence when displayed, and that its displays 

 are far less frequent. Such, I believe, will be more and more 

 the case ; and that whilst religious distinctions will remain 

 the same, and conscientious convictions unaltered, social and 

 party differences consequent on those distinctions and con- 

 victions will daily diminish ; that all alike will more and 

 more feel in how many things they can think and act to- 

 gether for the benefit of their common country, and of the 

 community of wliich they all are members ; how they can 

 be glad together in her prosperity, and be sad together in the 

 day of her distress ; and work together at all times to pro- 

 mote her good. That this College is calculated to aid in a 

 great degree in effecting this happy result, I for one cannot 

 entertain the shadow of a doubt. ' Esto perpetua ! ' " 



"Esto perpetua." But there remains, I believe, more yet 

 to be done for education in the West Indies ; and that is 

 to carry out Mr. Keenan's scheme for a Central University 



