Excerpt from Speeches The Minister of Education for Ontario, who succeeded Hon. George W. Ross in that position, is not as well known in Eastern Ontario as he ought to be. Many saw and heard him here on Wednesday last for the first time, and the universal opinion is that he is an honor to the position. As a thorough student of the great educational problems of-the _day, -'he has no superior, for no phase of these questions can be touched, that Mr. Harcourt is not prepared to discuss. A Toronto University man, he is in close touch with higher education, and his experience as a teach er is very useful to him now in grappling with the details of his department. His Short address to the pupils at the Collegiate Institute on the occasion of his visit here, was very interesting, and was characteristic Of the man, for the matter he presents in an address is never Of the slipshod variety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.