Excerpt from College Addresses: Delivered to Pupils of the Royal College of Music

"There is nothing so tiresome as preaching." The words with which Sir Hubert Parry began one of those addresses, which opened every terms work at the Royal College of Music during the twenty-four years of his directorship, may fitly stand at the head of a volume having at first sight something of the appearance of a book of lay sermons.

That appearance would have horrified him, for in condemning the tiresomeness of preaching he was sympathising as much with the preacher as with the congregation. He was never wholly happy about these addresses.

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