The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-12-30 00:00:00

MELOOMBE liitilS SCHOOL

A large e impany assembled in the sch,ol ou u-
day •vening to wit...A the alittribiaiu I prizi.
ant to hew au eatertam
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Tb. rel.•:t of the li•s. K. T. B.nd sr'
rrehen.laty of Linoolo, the ex .111i0.11- ..ppolutwf by
LUG Synth. ate of the.Un y of Csuitui 'de. wee
a. fit.ws

oubmit to you the following mood of the
Melo:nubs Regis Soh ml, which I examined at rose
request in tbe raid ile of *Lily, both orally and be
pri tad repots. Toe school contained at toe time of
u.y vi•it 110 bye,divided into six clipped of with
Claes VI. woe the bigh.et. Th • soli tpo ./. remain .-
tion were Divinity, La in. to nab, Gerenen,
arithmotlo, algebra, euclid, trigonometry, &Wish
grammar end litersture, and Igll.b hietory a d
ge .raptly. Divinity—My i spans its Genesi• and
Exodus, tit. NI dtn.'e t; opel, the Acta .1 the
Apostbo, no I the Church Cattails' m produced v. ry
oorqu.l romlts. Some boy• 11l well thotal.ly
Humphrey i.), b it there were loony in (ifferent paaos
smut up, and 1., large • per co.tsge of failures. T
three 10.11)At Foram', who wero egsmin.-d rine Poe,
at.swerel In et of my quevtions
ooromitly. IN.. leas the . five boy. in Form 111
and Om. in Form 11. oh-awed full troths.)
I..tid—Tun Sigh F rum h•I been reading Vigil
.IBeei i V., Cligme, De Ate., Di, si In °Ahearn,
sod eh., gave them • somewhat d lKult papw• I.
Latin grammar, now. 11011,00 Itsu.u.tiqu mid COWS
I. *tin pr iee, and upon the whole I we. satisfied with
the r ;.erfornianth Me USING tr.o.lation sod the
14,t •n proem (to both of which great inatortance
Wachs.) were very creditable, and the prepared work
was in some came a. good as coold be reasonably
expected from boys of their age. The Fifth (eh had
proreire I the first 600 linem of Viral' :Eueid V.) ale.
aeqoittol themeelve• with credit. Roberta dew yes
special common ati in for hi• Viig.l pope,. lhe
l'im•ar of Fret IV. was with three exception* p or.
Form 111. were examined both °roily an I by an saoy
pope', 13 hays out of 26 ineworwl my rice race quo -
true OitiffS4.4.lllr wbr at U mutt be c apidered to
have fail, I. Stent's paper was an excellent one, and
lone other boys did well. The Latin of F ale. II
sod I. was quite elioneutary, but I thought
it fairly gool so rat IN it went. French
The Piocloia of F 'cm VI. had been thoroughly pre-
pared, and very good marks were obtaimod rot b lit
Trepidation an-I trosumnar. —The average for the
former was nearly AI pis mot., an for the I Ater 70
per cent. FinV. in the ram* papers di-I wel ,a. a
rut.% hut there wwe a f-w in lid -trent Perrottriaoeee
Form IV. ha I evidently I 'mot Fmoiula tot difillzult I ir
,hetn. I was Tato oatisfinl with the ''al examivation
id Form 111., in which there were only four wee of •
absolute I olure, and many buy, in Torm I did or-II
hut Form 11, 41 • whole, •ppoared t., be we dr, G •r.
MAW —Twemty by. took toy German p•Velli Ti.•
translation of the high-r ("Me warn iU mmt oas • ,
go i, and questmle in grammar were fairly w-II
ontoirsred, but the comp-Sidon waa hardly what it
▪ -old hay- b-en. Arithmetic—The average of toe
oith-ad (to form 111. ioclu•ime) in fairly graduated
papers warn • little tined!' 25 per cent. I think it
I. bays been at least 40, and I believe it w old
have been but for the oun-taut inaccuracy .1 working.
Brthoner i. sent up an ex oellent paper, and aisle, di- I
Stood Algebra-41x boys out of 36 did well, and oix
other, fairly well the mat of the papers were but
iti iiffsrent. They were M• 170-1 by the came
inuooracy that we, 00 conspicuous in the arithmetic.
Brooniier I, highly commended, Euclid The
Eucli I of the bighmet division was very good,
tt•rrothera li. and Bremner specially distinguishios
themselves. There were four other papers which
gained more than 40 per "end of full markm, whilot
• dozen boys must be pronounced to have faded.
Trigo ometry—ii •ven b ye did all my paper In tn.
11101ite. Of three two -lid really well. Bremner
with 95 mark. deserter bigh pritive. E glish Or.
OM sad Literature—Th- E -shah orammar of Form VI.
w .• fair, that id Form' V. sn I IV. us. bardly mai -
fact wy, that of Form 111 poor. rio Is se their pap-re
were coccerned. Yet the clam. did well vire MCC IN
also did the lowed T weiity•tw. pa.aro wee
'not In in Shale-speare's " A.• you Ilk. It." That or
Humphrey i. we. by far the bee'. English History
and Geography —The geograph• of Firm VI. through.
nut +.l good. Dreamer i., and Humphrey 1., highly
commended In history they wore much NMI
scam a•ful. In Form V. also the vs graph, was
clinch better than the history. I was, upon the wit •I-,
eatisfi-d with the lower claws in their viva o Ce
en 'win .11 -n' mid would meetion with speerial diadem.
ti e Stole, Williford, Jo Ition i., and Hopkin-, in ,
whoops wereti correctly every questluit ti..tf. II totheru,
In conclumion. I hog to nay that, ahnl.t I have felt
myself oblig.ri t direct your miontion to what
app -aced to ms to be week p dote in thle school, yet
much go -I work au sividoutly been dime Ito it,
especially in the highest lo in. In I oohing over the
piper., I wig repeatedly struck with the thought th 3
the boys were not doing themselves juotitai—that iii
there lee'. • little mom pain. takm ti product
accurst • work, the moults would have been exoeorringly
coo d—E. 4. Sintilltilol. M. t.. C .rptio Christi
C d lege, Crenhridge, August 9 h, 1884."

The programme wat se f
(whin •n.I I n. ), Maws. Sine nod Tb.irne ; part
• 'fir, "Lnrl-y ;" • nir, "I Fear oo F..•," Mr. A.
Uh..n i•; t, in, The A•h Ilro •• ;" dent. "All'. We' "
Arin•tr ing and n Disey ; ming," The 8•11,41.
Far••••II,” W. K. Hopkilo•; anlo (piano), " Andnot-"
Mid " Val.. Br liante," G. h. Alcoa ; tio•t•
The Convent Balls," H. T. Fali an I J.
Fell; two.; art •ong, "The Csoivihio 8.4
A .or." P.rt 11. 'Fri.., " Harp that
' antic Tne Etolgrants," Mr. Arto•tran, ;
• n.r, .bin A 'sir," ff. r. .luot at, I
i inn), %laws. St.. an.l To WI, • •ong, " AI V• •
p••• Mr. Di•ii•• ; 4.101, • Tfi• Oil Et•iinte." A. H.
No ; oon,t, "Iliusly," J. Jir.ii; MO, "Psi., Piper:"
glee, Ftrew•ll."
ST. JOHN'S BOYS'. GUMS', AND INFANT
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