THE LATE KENNETH WILSON, M.A.

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 90, 13 October 1920, Page 7

THE LATE KENNETH WILSON, M.A.

AN APPRECIATION BY "AN

OLD BOY."

The announcement in Monday night's paper of the death, at Palmerston North of Kenneth Wilson has brought sadness and real grief to many of the old boys of Wellington College, of which he was the first headmaster. It was in Wilson's time that the fine traditions of the school began, traditions that have flourished so finely under the present head.. Wilson's boys knew him not only as a man of fine scholarship and broad views, but as a pattern of what was courteous, and noble. It was impossible to conceive of him as harbouring any motive, any thought, that was not of the highest. Ho did not "preach," but he did in life and act instil ideals of* greatness worth more than all the verbal teaching that a, lifetime could give. If his boys did not learn to love the noble and to hate the mean and base, it was because of inherent weakness in themselves 'shat no teacher could make good. There is no walk in life in which those boys have not shown themselves men. He is numbered among the dead, but to those who knew him well he lives and will aiw-ays live, an inspiration to greatness of thought and purity of action. "Live ruie, 6].'eak true, right wrong, follow tho King, else wherefore^ born?"—that indicates the land of influence that 1 Wilson pierted over the boys of his day, the liind of man he was, the kind he would have them be,