The President having made several busi ness announcements, vacated the chair in favor of Mr W. J. Moore, and proceeded to deliver hi 3 retiring address, which was entitled OUR EDUCATIONAL I'OBJTION REVIEWED. After speaking at some length upon the relations between citizens and the State, he went on to discuss subjects having peculiar interest to the teaching profession. Com mencing with (.'RAM—THE CURSE OF TEACIIGR AND TAUGHT. He said : But why do we cram ? Our system requires it, and our Education Board de mands it, school committees ask for it, parents gauge a school by it, and our posi tions depend upon it. Same standard is required, and as results give a finality results are Used. In doing so we forget the great aim of teaching—we want present fruiw instead of the fruits of the future, and in measuring present progress forget, that true results are ungetatable by any system expressed in figures, for " sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste," and we also forget tint excess of anything engenders disgust, and disgust loathing. I feel all the more compelled to speak out against the excessive cramming that all of us are driven to partly because our Board pre tends to discourage it, and partly because the ' Daily Times' (June 16) in an article dealing with the Hon. J. MacGregor's motion stated : (1) That teachers having the most ordinary enthusiasm will promote promising pupils rather than keep themgrind ing up nauseating work (this Was in reference to the Hon. J. MacGregor's proposal that pro mising pupils be promoted two standards); (2) that it is doubtful whether teachers are such blind victims to the percentage craze as they arc represented to be ; and (3) that percentages are more and more discredited. As for the first, I am afraid we are nearly all incapable of the most ordinary en thusiasm, for if the Board were to ask us for a return of names of nupils promoted two standards iu a year I'll be on the safe side in sayiDg that in the past not more than perhaps one in 500 in our town schools have met with that consideration. 