98 il. J. KENDALL, ESQ., M.A.. ON THE TEACHER's TOCATION. 



agree with the first, while many would still demur to the second. 

 Thev are these : — 



(1) That character is a more valuable thing than either ability or 

 attainment. Xow ability is very good ; it is like cutting with a sharp 

 knife instead of a blunt one. Attainment is even better, for there 

 are moral elements of perseverance in it. But character, fidelity to 

 a trust, disinterestedness, courage, and all the elements of greatness, 

 is a nobler thing still. 



(2) That the sort of character required cannot be formed without 

 true rehgion, true Christianity. This statement is by no means of 

 iiniversal acceptance to-day. and there is great satisfaction, and great 

 hope for the futiure of England in hearing it openly expressed by the 

 Head Master of Winchester. Behind the fresh young faces he sees 

 the material that can be moulded into following the character of 

 Christ, the Past-master of purity, the Will of infinite courage, the 

 One who laid down His life for the world. 



It is a great encouragement to hear such a lecture as this, a 

 forward-call to every one of us who have the honour of belonging to 

 the finest profession in the world.'' 



Mr. HosTE was quite unable to agree with a pre^^ious speaker as 

 to the futility of Latin and Greek studies at school. He was most 

 thankful for what had been hammered into him there, and had found 

 it since an immense help in many ways. 



He thought Mr. Strachey's account of Dr. Arnold, referred to by 

 the Lecturer, must have hit the mark, for portentous attitude so 

 well described a great disciple of Arnold's, the late John Percival 

 of Hereford, under whom he was for seven years. But his influence 

 was immense in the school ; he was a lover of good men,'' a terror 

 to evW doers, and boys knew his sternness was that of earnest 

 endeavour and high ideal. A half-smile from him was far more 

 than a pat on the back from most men. But perhaps sternness in 

 any form is not allowed in these soft days. He remembered, when 

 tramping in the wilds of Central Africa in 1916, with his friend Dan 

 Crawford of " Thinking Black " fame, this latter saying how once 

 when dining at White House, President Wilson asked him what 

 had struck him most on emerging on civilization after twentv-three 

 years in the long grass, and he had answered, " Xo spankings in the 

 nursery ; no gallows in the law-courts ; no hell in the pulpit." 

 I do not know if the first item included no birch in the school," 



