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THE LEAGUE OF THE
EMPIRE.
To establish a Great Imperial Teachers' Headquarters in London.
Your Excellency,
Courtfield House,
Courtfield Road,
South Kensington, S.W. 7.
Charles Watney, Provincial Hon. Organi-
30 th. January, 1919.
-881.
May I bring to your notice a matter of
Imperial concern in which we feel sure you may be able to assist
by kindly laying the facts before some local resident or residents
who may be willing to interest themselves in it and thus secure
the unofficial association of the Colony over which you preside
with an undertaking of permanent value to the British Empire.
The League of the Empire, whose Hon. President is H.R.H, the Duke
of Connaught and which is under the active patronage of Her
Majesty Queen Alexandra and H.R.H. Princess Louise, is anxious
to establish in London as a War Memorial of educational effort
in the great struggle, a great Imperial Teachers' Headquarters
which will be the meeting place in London of teachers from all
over the British Empire.
This will take the form of a Residential
Club but it will in addition possess many features not usually
associated with Institutions of this nature. Thus, there will be
a Lecture Room in which Conferences can be held or Addresses
given by men who stand high in their profession, either in Great
Britain or in other parts of the Empire. There will be a Library
and in addition every adjunct for the gathering of teachers who
may wish to meet each other for the purpose of mutual information
and reciprocal assistance. It will even tend to promote the
interchange of teachers the beginning of which has been made with
the happiest results. Its special aim is to broaden the interest
in life, stimulate the mentality, and increase the experience of
those on whom the rising generation depends for its education,
and
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