CHRIST’S COLLEGE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145903, 9 August 1917, Page 7

CHRIST’S COLLEGE.

A DUNEDIN TRIBUTE.DUNEDIN,' July 31. In proposing the toast of the Christ’s College football team at the dinner tendered them, Mr. H. Webb aaid; “The visitors have come from a school which, if it is not the very oldest is one of the oldest of our New Zealand secondary schools, a school that is now far on its way to its centenary. Their school was born, like the Grecian goddess of beauty, on the sea shore. Whilst still in its infancy it made its way into the heart of Christchurch, a lit prophecy of the place it was to take in the hearts of the thousands who have passed, and will yet pass, through its halls. Later it found its place in the quite ideal nook that it now occupies, nestling as it does into the beautiful gardens for which Christchurch is famed, and washed by the waters of the Avon with their lure of boating and swimming. “The College,” Mr. Webb continued, “is modelled as to its life and work on the great English public schools, and many of our educationalists still swear by them, but I,have noted that of late years there has 'been creeping into our schools a gradual approximation to all tnat is best in the English methods or ways. Whatever may be said as to the relative merits of the systems, Christ’s College has behind it in the famous old schooVa grand tradition of which it may Well be proud. , “It is the boast of the English public schools,” Mr. Webb proceeded, “that they train their boys in selfcontrol and self-respect, and in this our New Zealand secondary schools follow them. Onr boys can lost without ‘grizzling,’ and win without giving themselves ‘airs.’ In all our games, we seek by means of them to create, to develop, and to foster a spirit of fellowship and true' brotherliness amongst our secondary school boys.”