On Thursday, the Duke of Albany (Prince Leopold) opened University
College, Nottingham, with all the grace and even more than the terseness which used to mark his father's addresses on subjects of this kind. "You will not, I hope, be tempted," said the Prince, at the luncheon, "to let your teaching be too exclusively technical. You will remember how many of your students will need from you, not so much that you should help them in their daily work, as that you should teach them to rise above it ; that you should open to them wider vistas, and make them capable of new joys." Nevertheless, with that scrupulous justice of mind which Prince Leopold has now frequently evinced, he did this justice to strictly technical teaching, that in helping men to do their daily work thoroughly, it helps them " to re- spect what they learn," and therefore to delight in their work for its own completeness, and not simply for the reward it earns. The Prince made, too, another admirable remark :—" I observe, too, that the narrower patriotism is often the best way of leading us to the broader, and that the better citizen a man is of Notting- ham, the better will he be of England, and that the truest sons of England will be the best citizens of the world." It is clear that Prince Leopold, at least, is no Jingo.
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