PUBLIC SCHOOL SPIRIT
" Some time ago,' said Mr Annesley Somerville, MP., speaking in the House of Commons, "I gave a series of addresses on different educational subjects for the National Council of Education in Canada, at various places from Vancouver to Toronto. I was often asked to say something about the public school spirit. It was .. difficult thing to do. and what was 1 to do but to quote to them the oath taken by the ephebi in ancient Greece, that is, the youths oi 18, when they went to the Temple of Minerva to get their arms before being sent 1o the frontier to guard their State. The oath was: "I will not dishonour my sacred arms; 1 will not desert my fellow soldiers by whose side I shall be set; I will do battle for my country whether aided or unaided: I. will strive to leave her better than I found her: I will reverence the temples in which my fathers worshipped. Of these things the gods are rny witnesses.-' Those principles," said Mr. Somerville "are as old as time, but they arf the basis of democracy."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23807, 13 May 1939, Page 23
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