We feel happy to be able to give here a summary of the interesting report which was read, on the 15th December 1910, by the Principal, in Connection with the annual Distribution of Prizes, at the Abovementioned College, well known throughout the length and breadth of United South-Africa.

The drafting of a report, says he, in years of sound educational work and of all round progress is one of the lightest burdens imposed upon Principals in their yearly round of duties.

Such has been my experience this year. It is gratifying indeed to be able lo record that our numbers are again on the increase, and that there has been a constant and steady influx of students during the year. Moreover, I am in the happy position of being able to say that, should all those who have made inquiries about the College during the past few months decide upon enrolling their boys at the beginning of next term, it should be necessary to call in a building contractor with all possible haste to provide shelter and accommodation for all. Thus I feel that, with the return of better times, the College will not only see its most prosperous days again, but that its prosperity in the past was only a shadow of the bright days looming in the distance „.

Then follows the account of the school work and Examination results which are very creditable to the College and to the Staff. Mention is also made of improvements in various departments such as Chemical Laboratory, Museum of Natural History, Library and Dormitories. Sports are refered to as follows:

Within proper limits sports are a great educational factor and their influence in the formation of character must he recognised ; while physically they relieve the tension of the classroom and provide the exercise necessary for the growth and development of youthful frame. I am happy to be able to state that our former standard of excellence in sports has been fully maintained during the past year. In outside competitions the boys carried all before them in Cricket, Football and Swimming.

Then the Rev. Father Kennedy in an eloquent and heartfelt address to the students, inter alia, said:

We have listened with much pleasure to the excellent report of the past Scholastic year ; and I heartily congratulate those boys who have achieved such brilliant success at the pubic examinations. I join with the Principal in the hope that the College is about to enter into an era of prosperity which will obscure even the brightest period of its history.

The struggle for success in this country is becoming much keener and more difficult than it has been in the past ; and those only may hope to attain it in future who will be educationally fit to compete for it. I therefore hope that those boys who have matriculated this year will come back to equip themselves more efficiently for the battle of life.

You receive in this College education as it should be properly understood. The Brothers do not confine their energies to filling the minds of their pupils with facts, so that every Marist Bros' boy might be known as a living encyclopaedia. The intellect is not the most important or the noblest faculty in human nature ; and therefore education will be sadly defective and incomplete if it does not ennoble the heart and discipline the will.

Knowledge is power, they say ; hut whether that power is used rightly or wrongly depends on the training of the heart and will. You will therefore understand why the Marist Brothers set so much importance on discipline and -Why they devote so much attention to the inculcation of moral principles of conduct into the minds of their pupils.

When you leave these walls you may hear hard and bitter things said against the Brothers and their School ; for we are competing so successfully in the educational arena that we must expect hostile opposition. But as many of you have passed a considerable time in this College and have been brought into daily contact with the Brothers, you cannot have failed to notice in the least of them, more virtues, more self-sacrifice, zeal and devotion to their work than in the salaried professors of any secular college. I therefore hope that there is not a single boy in the college who would so fail in manliness honour and chivalry as to hear the reputation of his Alma Mater unjustly assailed without standing boldly for its defence. I must say I have no fears in this matter, as I have reason to believe that the present generation of pupils will uphold the splendid traditions of their predecessors and will not fail to expose the malice or ignorance of the libellers of this College which has given such an excellent contribution to the cause of education in South-Africa