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Upper Canada College, Toronto. Jan. 22 '36

I am very glad to have the privilege of being here with
you tonight for I feel that I have many links with this school. Its
former Principal, for whom I had a profound respect, overlapped with
me at Oxford, and from him I first learned something about this land
of yours. My partner in business for nearly a quarter of a century
was the son of George Brown, one of the Fathers of Canadian Confederation,
and was educated here. So was Sir Edward Peacock, who has
long been my friend, and who today holds a position second to none
in the City of London. So you see that my ties with Upper Canada
College go a long way back, and it is a real pleasure for me to make
the personal acquaintance of an institution of which I have heard so
much, and which has for so lohg been a major force among the youth
of this country.

Mr. MacDermot tells me that I ought to say something to
you tonight in addition to thanking you for your welcome. Well, we
are all bound together by one common interest - you as the alumni of
a famous school, and I as one who all my life has been interested in
education. But I am not going to talk to you about education in the
ordinary sense. I would rather say a word to you about the times in
which we live and the special duties which they lay upon those of us
who venture to call ourselves educated men and women.

I do not know if you have read a book by the American Secretary
for Agriculture, Mr. Henry Wallace. It is called New Frontiers,
and is one of hte most thought-provoking pieces of writing
which I have read for many a day. The gist of its argument is that
the United States have no longer a physical frontier which permits of