A. Stcwnrl MacDonald D.F.C., M.D. C..M.

I out there that could be grasped. By reading and some imagination, one could place one’s self at a given spot on

the earth and learn a lot; that one’s lifetime experience is very limited and can be misleading, like the six blind men

l of Indostan who went to see the elephant. There are so

‘ many ways to interpret any given experience.

As I look back over the 66 years, my opinion of Prince of Wales College gets less and less. There were 380 students at the beginning of the year, with no fourth year class. I am doubtful if there were 80 second and third year students. Out of about 300 first year students, fewer than 100 passed the final exams. Think of the effort that the parents put to send those pupils for further education. There were no grants, and the School Board did not take the students to high school for grade eleven and twelve, where most of them pass the exams. If a high school failed up to 50% of its students today, can’t you see the public response? Grade eleven, which is equal to first year Prince of Wales College, is only Grade X in Nova Scotia and other provinces, except Ontario which has 13 grades. I got some surprise when this was brought to my attention when I instructed for a short time in Jarvis, Ontario, during my training to get into the Air Crew. Prince of Wales College was more interested to get a standing in the universities, than teaching the pupils for what awaited them in their later years. I note, while looking over the pass lists of students during my four years in Prince of Wales College, that many of the ones coming at the bottom of the lists are the ones now with the most money in their pockets. Today, it has been said that pupils in the middle of the class often are the most successful future citizens. Getting back to the parents of the so-called failures

in Prince of Wales College, what an effort they made to send their children to Prince of Wales College. Granted,

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