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LEARNERS AS LEADERS of a high, undreamed-of honour, to touch on the inner life of our Society, upon its work and upon the spirit that breathes in that work.

My first thought is of him who addressed you last year. In 1867, when I first entered the old College at Quay Street, the subjects of history, of the English language and of English literature were piled together upon one Chair, of which the immense labour had but a year before been entrusted to Adolphus William Ward. His lecture-room was 12