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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 27 July 1933, Page 8

"In these days it is not easy to remember that, at the back of all our social and economic and political schemes, the greatest asset of a nation is the personality of its citizens," saiu the Rev. H. K. Archdall, headmaster of King's College, Auckland, in a sermon at the annual service of the King's College Old Boys' Association. The world needed leaders who would match their manhood with the magnitude of man's need, said Mr Archdall. But people tended to think that any onf man was as good as any other, and democracies were in danger of degenerating in a sea of sentiment, because people forget the complementary truth that, although any man was as good as any other in his ultimate worth in God's sight, only the wisest and the best could really lead. "Here we learn what it means to belong somewhere, to be part of a social tradition bigger than ourselves, in the service of which we can find real freedom," Mr Archdall addf.cl. "The youngest boy can learn what loyalty to house and school means .in terms of honest endeavour, and each boy as he goes out into the world can feel all the time that he is a living part of a society with traditions and great responsibilities and he has to translate that loyalty ink) loyalty for Church, for family, for King."

While in India, said the Rev. H. W. Newall last night in an address at Canterbury College in connexion with the Canterbury College Student Movement, he had noticed a picturesque peculiarity in some of the districts. Instead oi' saying ho had "heard a poem - ' a native would say lie had "seen a poem.'' This really indicated the possession of a high degree of poptic vision.