first principal. Professor Thompson's inaugural address must have convinced them that he was at once a scholar, a teacher, and a man whose abundant energy was tempered with kindliness. Deeply moved by the advice and encouragement of Professor Woodman, the counsellor and teacher of his youth, he spoke in clear and simple language of the developments in education, traced the history of the Institute's foundation, outlined the scope of the educational plan that would be followed, and touched upon the observations that he had accumulated in Europe. "In what nobler work could we engage?" he asked. "What more exhilarating project could allure us than the better education of the boys who are eventually to be the pillars of the state?"