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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 569, 26 July 1909, Page 8

Thearoroplane, from what;l have, seen of: it,, has no war uses at all at present, and , oven the famous Wright machino .'■' is littlo nioro' than an interesting,toy.—Mr; Fred T. Jane, the naval expert. . . Tho 'relations botwceit , owners, tenantfarmers,', and agricultural labourers in the past have been friendly, and it will bo better for the country if those" relations are fostered, rather than that a -desire should'be shown to set.class against class. —Tho'Duke of Devonshire. . / '-.'.. ,'. '. In dedicating .a'memorial, to John-Richard Green at College, Oxford, tlio ViceChancellor of tho •■.'university boldly . described him as "in every sense a son of Oxford." ',:True, tho author of the -'Short History of the English People" was born in the city and grew up amid its surroundings. But ho seems to have been quite uninfluenced by tho intellectual movement of the university, and took not -the slightest advantage of its opportunities. At one time the ."state.of discontent and revolt" in which Dr.; Warren allows him to have lived as an undergraduate caused serious uneasiness to his; friends as giving littlo promise of euergy in any useful direction. Dean Stanley urged him, "if he could "not or would not do the work tho.univorsity set hinv to do," then to work , on his own lines, but at all events to turn his hand to something definite j and-tlio,'counsel was probably not without its effect, tbougli Green would havo bcon a worker in any case. Nor was ho long in discovering tliotruo bout of his' miiid. Yet one suspects that he would have written history none the and appreciated tlio past more justly if, ho had not refused the discipline of the Honours course in Classics.—"The Guardiaui"