PRIDE OF SCHOOL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1922, Page 7

PRIDE OF SCHOOL.

A FINE THING TO CULTIVATE. LORD JELLICOE ON MEMORIALS. "Any memorial in a school that perpetuates the sacrifices the devotion to duty of those who gave their lives or served in the war, is bound to act as an incentive to the children of that school to live.up to the ideals.set before them by those who so nobly served their country." Thus his Excellency the Governor-General (Viscount Jellicoe) at the opening of the memorial gates at the Remuera main public school yesterday afternoon. His Excellency -w_s saying how specially he regarded it as an honour and a privilege to perform suck ceremonies at schools. "'There is another aspect with regard to school memorials," continued his Excellency, "they cultivate the spirit of esprit de Corps, or pride of school, and no finer spirit than this can be developed among the girls and hoys of a school. It is this spirit in the schools of the Old Country, that has made their old boys do great deeds, and similarly the girls and boys of this country will have to remember that they must always live up to the great record set before them W the men whose memory they honour. We hope and pray they may never be called upon to serve their King ami their country in the same manner a<* those who have gone before them and made the great sacrifice, but there is just as much to be done in peace as in war, by trying to live up to the ideals for which these men have fought and <_>d. They were imbued with a high sense of duty, they felt they must protect the weak, and tiiev did bo. showinj a spirit of frallantry which ail who follow after will do well to emulat"."