13 JULY 1907, Page 3

The centenary of Mill Hill School was celebrated on Friday

week, when Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman delivered a speech. He recalled the origin of the school, which was founded as a protest against an injurious monopoly of which only a few traces remained. People were so accustomed now to the freedom from religious tests at the Universities that they sometimes forgot how recently this bad been secured. He himself bad been in the House of Commons some years before Nonconformists could take degrees. In the rest of his speech the Prime Minister insisted upon the value of independent thinking. What was wanted was the desire and ability to form judgments of one's own, always with due regard for the authority of wiser persons. This frame of mind was true Protestantism.