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We have to mourn also the death of Miss Logan, who since 1905 has 

 officiated in the office of the Institute, looking after the assortment and 

 distribution of the exchanges, the keeping of the records, and the carry- 

 ing on of the correspondence under supervision, and much other detail 

 work in connection with the Institute with signal industry and ability. 

 Miss Logan had become a sort of universal directory as to all the interior 

 economy of the Institute. All who had relations with her learned to 

 respect her and remember her most kindly, and now that she is gone 

 she is sadly missed. 



In the death of Sir Sandford Fleming, the first Honorary President 

 of the Institute, who may be regarded as its founder in the year 1848, 

 not merely an outstanding pillar of the Institute, but one of our greatest 

 public men has passed away. 



Dr. Kennedy, associated with the Institute for a great many years as 

 its President and as a member of the Council, has a paper prepared on 

 the subject of Sir Sandford Fleming's demise, which I will ask him later 

 to read, forbearing further comment myself. 



When in November, 1914, it was my privilege to address you we 

 met under the pressure of the first few months of the greatest war ever 

 waged by man, cherishing in our inmost thought the hope which no one 

 dared to express, that not a long time would elapse before the Allies 

 would triumph and the strife cease. The year has passed with its 

 anxieties, thrills and great griefs, and the people of the British Empire, 

 far from realizing the hope we have mentioned, are in the stage of appre- 

 ciating that the end is not yet, and that before it comes, and to bring 

 that end about favourably to themselves, the sacrifices that the people 

 of the Allies have made must be supplemented by all the sacrifices 

 they are capable of making. 



The calls made upon the spirit of sacrifice and endurance in the 

 case of the people of Great Britain have been so contrary to their state 

 of mind, social relations and mode of life moulded by a century of peace 

 and of great commercial prosperity, that new conditions must hereafter 

 prevail. We find that this is the common theme of the prominent 

 writers and commentators of the time. These say that things can never 

 again be in Great Britain as they were. A new order will prevail from 

 the time peace is declared. It is even said that the political life of the 

 nation will be changed in many respects. It would require much greater 

 prescience than we are accustomed to meet to enter with certainty into 

 a more particular enumeration of the new conditions arising and to 

 arise. 



It is in the nature of things that there must be an incompatibility 

 between pre-war thought and post-war thought. When peace returns 



