The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-12-25 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL.

The distribution of prlaes to the pupils of this sohool
took pleas on Saturday, the 15th Wet, at the Royal
Hotel, Weymouth, In the presence of a orowded
gathering of Monde and leading inhabitants of the dis-
trict. The room was prettily deoorated with flags and
dowers for the occasion, and • platform had been
erected at the northern cod.

Lord Aidaley had been announced to take the chair,
but was un.hle to do a throng • haring t attend the
funeral of hie ant, Lady Harriet Ashley. In hie
absence. the chair was occupied by the Rev.
Sir Talbot Baker. Bart., who was supportod
on the platform by Miss Firth (Heed Mistress), Rev.
C. R. Gilbert, Rev. I'. Russell-Wright, Rey. J. Miller,
Bar. J. Wood, arid Volonel Stott. _

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The CIWILMAN, in opening the meeting, firet
regretted that family bereavement had prevented the
att indium of Lori Ashley. and then proceeded to
make some remarks on the education of girl., especially
fix the county of Dorset. If. felt sure the old-
fashioned girls' school, notori ms for its showy super-
ficialitim, want of thoroughn-e. deficient groundwork,
and lack of intelli.ent applicatim, was fast becoming
an institution tho peat. R. was surprised that
Dorset people still preferred schools of snob a stamp,
when there was an excellent high school at
Weymouth. Now. when the education of boys
was br.iag thoroughly testa 1 by the elaborate
rysteros of examination, it was becoming more and
more important the the education of_ girls should
advance with an equal rate of progress. He laid great
stress on the value of high school teaching, because it
war one which was regularly tasted by an independent
examining board. He believed that woman wee
Intro led to be as helpmeet for man, and that the
more thoroughly trained a woman's mental powers
were, the more adapted would she be to form an
Intelligent companion.
The r ART expressed hie mum of the value of
the school', work, and how great a misfortune it would
be if the inatatntion were &lowed to lapse through want
01 adequate support. He endeavoured to combat the
provider t idea that girls were overworked at high
school-, and said that even in the cam of the eldest
girls the working 12,,nrs did not exceed sight • day, and
Saturday was a holiday. He then proceeded ti read
the report furniahed by the Oxford and Cambridge
School. Examination Board :
ftel,..rt of the examinaUon, c inducted by the Joint Oxford
and Cambridge Board re imeiners, July, BM
The whole rich .1 was examined, comp Wing four forme.
The objects solaced by the C •uned It written work included
mathrmattics, arithmetic, Freoch, and history, the oral
examination wee conducted by the Re, nr, M. Fope,
Woroe.t.!r College. Oxford....

Form IV. (ogee lit 1111. Fronch.—Two girls have done very
well, vie-, C L. Pritchard and C. 0. Wheeler, the former db.
tinguiehin4 herself chiefly in tvanslaUon anal grammar, Um
latter In knowledge of ins prepared book " La P 1.06.," and
in Competition. Tne trawl .U., mad grammar ars very fair ;
the French eentenele rattwr weak. In oral French the
pared book wait hirly done. and the pronunciation and
attempt at unpreyared translation may be Mmilarly described.
Fatah& history wits sari fair.
arae mei. go d. It may be suggestal that tbs girls
should ow advance lob ghee cod, In this subject,
Form 111. (everage age, 15), Scriptoria—The knowledge of
the given subject, Eva and Nehemiah. was good; Engii.b
I letory was certainly very geed ; sad so no. also English
grammar; geography, good; Latin WU fairly dote; the
acquaintance- With grammar woe goo.. Fr...h.—The pre-
pared book was very ',arty done by some, others being weak.
Preach grammar wen irked very cool, and pronunciation
In ..me cases goo I.
Form IL—Rather .14.11 quickness wanted in scene rlrl.. In
Scripture s .bj et the cis.% di I wilt; English history and
grammar •ege both goof; g MO). •ty good; Lathn the
eonowe ~(end woe very •• II known; French grammar was
good, lk. prepared book was treasheted rather itragelerly, but
00100 two did well.