PUBLIC SCHOOL SPIRIT
“THE BASIS OF DEMOCRACY.” “Some time ago,” said Mr Annesley Somerville 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 a difficult thing to do, arid what was I to do but to quote to them the oath taken by the ephebi in Ancient Greece, that is, the youths of eighteen, when they went to the Temple of Minerva to get their arms before being sent to the frontier - to guard their State. The oath was: “I will not dishonour my sacred arms. “I will not desert my fellow soldiers by whose side I shall be sent. “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 my witnesses. “Those principles are as old as time but tbey are the basis of democracy.” i
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4188, 24 May 1939, Page 4
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