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LEARNERS AS LEADERS Some of the best of my contemporaries felt their calling to be the advancement of knowledge, and not a few of them fulfilled that mission in other universities. Of these there was perhaps no fitter example than John Henry Poynting, whose modesty was equal to his ability and who was loved by all who knew him.

An exponent of the public spirit of the College was Charles Hughes, with whom I think originated the idea of that Society of Associates which was the germ of our present 17