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training of the student. We cannot afford to reproduce Frankenstein's 

 creation in South Africa. And in the present stage of their develop- 

 ment the teaching of ethics cannot be divorced from religion, nor 

 a moral character produced without reference to an Unseen Being. 

 Not that the questionable dogmas of the Churches should be per- 

 petuated, but that the native student should learn the secret of all 

 moral victory from the example and sympathy of men with high 

 spiritual ideals. 



Yet another principle that should guide in the framing of a 

 native college course is that, while the education provided should 

 aim at the widening of the student's mental horizon and the deepening 

 of his intellectual capacity, it should after a certain point lead in 

 the direction of specialised training. Whatever " Arts " course is 

 fram.ed should be followed by courses with distinctly professional 

 and utilitarian aims. We want to produce a class of men who can 

 turn their education to practical use in the work of uplifting their 

 own people. There are at present openings for such, whether trained 

 as better class teachers, or as agriculturists, or in the direction of 

 sanitary reform. Indeed it is questionable if, at least for some time 

 to come, a degree should be conferred upon anv native student who 

 has not successfully completed some such professional course. 



Such, briefly stated, are the aims of the present movement 

 towards an extension in native higher education in the form of the 

 establishment of an inter-State Native College. The College is 

 certain to come. It rests with those who guide the educational 

 thought of this country, so to shape its policy, that its highest 

 potentialities may be realised. 



