ABSTRACT
In the spring of 1927, a young lecturer at the University of Toronto ended his course with imperialist enthusiasm:
Therefore it is with confidence that I look a hundred years ahead to a classroom of earnest, eager young faces, their pens moving with lightning rapidity, to catch the fleeting word, that flows from the lips of an ambitious young lecturer, who is giving a course on “The successful solution of Britain's Imperial problems in the twentieth century.” 1
