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attend to. I hardly expected that I should be called upon to oft'er any 

 remarks, because I know we are already well represented by other members of 

 the Faculty of Forestry. But since you have called upon me I merely have to 

 say that as a University we are very glad to have you within our precincts. 

 Our interest in this subject may be estimated by the fact that we have not 

 only a Professor of Forestry but a Faculty of Forestry, which means more 

 than merely having the study on the curriculum, and also that this Faculty 

 has trebled within one year. We began last year with the same number of 

 students that the Faculty of Applied Science began with some 30 years ago. 

 The Faculty of Applied Science numbers to-day 750, but what the Faculty of 

 Forestry will number in 30 years I will not venture to predict. However, we 

 feel that the work of the Forestry Department of the University is contri- 

 buting to the practical up-building of the Dominion as a whole. As a Uni- 

 versity, we welcome you because we know, both from our own actual know- 

 ledge and from what we have heard from our very capable instructors in 

 Forestry, that the future welfare of the country depends upon the proper 

 conservation of our forest wealth. We know also that public opinion is very 

 slowly moulded : that it has to be educated by long and careful nurture. 

 But we also know that it is the men in authority those who are competent to 

 lead with whom this responsibility rests, and that they have our sympathy 

 in their endeavors. All reasonable men in the country will follow them, but 

 it requires time to convince people that certain things are so. Under the 

 persistent and intelligent application of knowledge these minds will soon be 

 convinced, and I have no doubt whatever that such educational methods as 

 you are here exercising, as well as methods in council, will be largely useful 

 in educating the people. We have to see that our people do not regard this 

 country as their own selfish inheritance for a generation. As we have 

 received it, so we should transmit it. As a people, we must recognize more 

 and more that our national life is made up of a multitude of individuals, 

 each of whom stands, not by himself; but that our national life is organic, 

 that there is a mystic community of interest that pervades the whole, and 

 makes us inter-dependent, and that the welfare of one generation is depend- 

 ent upon the welfare of those preceding it. For this reason we welcome you; 

 because we regard you as doing a very large educational work, as well as 

 furthering the work which we attach importance in connection with oui; 

 Faculty of Forestry. (Applause.) 



