City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . ed up in a modern fashion, with allrequirements so far known in institutions ofits kind. Heretofore Normal School studentsfrom the West had to go to Toronto or as The Hoisting of the Flag, and consists ofthe school children assembling on the park,and there, after some simple ceremonies, thehalyards are grasped by the scholars and theUnion Jack is, amid the cheers of the multi-tude, run up to the peak of the staff.* * Let me here quote a few sentences culled from anotable paper written by General Harrison, ex-Presi-dent


City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . ed up in a modern fashion, with allrequirements so far known in institutions ofits kind. Heretofore Normal School studentsfrom the West had to go to Toronto or as The Hoisting of the Flag, and consists ofthe school children assembling on the park,and there, after some simple ceremonies, thehalyards are grasped by the scholars and theUnion Jack is, amid the cheers of the multi-tude, run up to the peak of the staff.* * Let me here quote a few sentences culled from anotable paper written by General Harrison, ex-Presi-dent of the United States, apropos of Queen VictoriasJubilee: There is a love in English hearts, and a respectin all hearts, for the good and venerable woman who forsolong has been Queen of England, born of her personal vir-tues ; but she is loved by Englishmen more for what shepersonifies—the government and the glory of England. ONTARIO, CANADA. 83 As a matter of record,School Board and its officciyear (1900) are ;ii)i)(Mi(l(>d : the naniii?s for tln i of thel)resent. Bairister ; Chas. Colerick, Contractor. — .John Jones, Contractor; Thomas Evans,Accountant. Ward I—C. H. Ziegler, Dentist;J. M. Logan, Publisher. Ward5—W. M. English, M. D.; Boyle, Druggist. Ward6—John MacPherson, Bar-rister ; A. Wilkins, Gentle-man. Officers : S. J. Rad-cliffe, B. A., Principal Col-legiate Institute ; William , Inspector PublicSchools; John Pope, Treas-urer ; R. M. McElheran, Sec-retary. The Western School ofArt, which is under Govern-ment auspices, was openedin 1877, and has proven agreat aid and incentive tothe study and practice of late Mr. J. H. Griffithhad been connected with theschool from its opening tillhis death in 1898, and he, incompany with the late Chapman, may be setdown as the real fathers of Chairman : R. A. Bayly,Barrister. Collegiate Insti-tute : Thos. Gillean, Jewel-ler ; D. W. Blackwell, Mer-chant ; E. J. MacRobert, In-surance A


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