A RETIRING HEADMASTER

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 282, 24 August 1922, Page 5

A RETIRING HEADMASTER

FAREAVELLED BY SCHOLARS. Early this week the Hev. I?. 11. Hcbctriv and Mrs. Holiday were presented with a handsome silver cako dish engraved with the school motto, “Ad Altiora,”' as a token of love end esteem from the pupils of Cr<\v<kn School. At. tho same time Mrs. Drrwitt an-:. Miss Lewds, the two matrons who nre also leaving, were p*re c ented with n cameo brooch and lady’s leather bug respectively, while Air. J. A. Austin, one of the teaching staff who is leaving thio schoo’, wr.s heartily thanked for his work on the st ff, and the assistance he had been to the boys. The presentaHnns were made on behalf of the pnrfils by Dr. Dcvsh, the head' of the school, iyho ‘■aid that Mr. Hobday hao been a tower of strength to the echoo'l and that he had gained the love as well as tho respect of the bovs. The Rev. O. M. stnt-<’ that ho had seen Mr. and Mrs. TT'-bd-v come to the school, and if wa-- n-Hh reluctance he saw them no. He know that their work w” of a higher stan jard than the b A va realised. Mr. A. AV. D. Gibson, on bckolf of th? remaining staff, p"’d th*"f the twomatrons had medo tlieir o-d. refining influence felt throughout the school. Tho cz>hool mis proud to'have had, a Cambi'idm* «s Hmir first hea'llmostor. Mr. TmUfl-y hast n?id portieulnr attention to fhe moral tone of flm. Rohnol.- hut h? bod Er no* mo"n» stinted the other ride ef th" work, ti,seow>t of h's sucAes >was that he bad tried to rule -bv leva and not hv and had treated the boys as he had his own son. M". Hobdav. wlm was rec?ive'l w'th deafcr'ing pec.'nmetion, said that he wee overwhelmed hv th? host of go-J y-i-].?. bo .nn/i his. wiM car"’’nd awov with them Tf.» told the bovs that just as «omc of the .scholars were going bi other cri--lero3. the adults fed to keen on fenm intr on. and m c.nrry oiff the school motto. “Ad Altiorn.” to i.ioii-y fn-nm.. He was very srrrv indeed to ’eave them, but lie would follow Hip career, vf c->ch and evory on? with Hie k<mn''«t n f interest. He warned* them ngninst becoming just clever rronndrels. *a’>d would life them ell to b’n- in fend t’m n-'-cn-t. of St. Paul: "Hcnour ”11 men. ]c--n the brotherhood. f“ God, i.nnn.m Hie King.”