The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-08-04 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AT MELCONBE

REGIS Wtidoc.

On Friday at noon the distribution of prizes took
place at this ach"ol Mr. A. E. Shaw, the Head
toaster, presided, this being the first prize day since
his appointment. He was supported by Dr. Miller,
• r. A. N. Disney, Mr. S. Mendel, Mr. A. Dennis,
the Revs, .7. Kennedy and T. Harrison, &c.
The programme was sustained in a capital manner,
am fOllOlll, - rhoro.. Our Merry Songs :" scene
from ° l'iec..iomm,i,mi Schiller, Herzogin, Duddy,
ma.: Wallensteist, lireinner : chsww, "Smiling
May scene from " The Tempest' —Wekerlin,
Prospero, Reynolds, ma.: Ferdinand. Porker •
wands, Judson, ma. ; ....mg and chorus, "In the;
Old 01.1 Way.- Pentin lencoreill : scene from "Le 4
Feimaniem. Savant, a' tbiliere, Ai tide. Stone, ma. :
'Wise, Davi,* • Chry.le, White " Maim. high
the Song,- Wagner.
I Ir. 1111.1. git. in response to a r.spie-t from the Ilead
subanittedhisreport i,i nwp • •; tothe examint-
tioo the ach...4. He said the nritlituetic petwr. ono
..f the umoat important featores in the work .4 a school,
Sr. excellent throughout, th- pajaere benziraet for lumP
11 older than de* iii this school, being thoie
be the Oxford and Camlaid,re Board. I hit
ol the full mark* one tiny Tirstrd obtained no le.
ihan .10, The other boys did excellent work, more
than half of them getting more than half marks, which
was most to the .desil. Very good nuters
we sent in 011 Euclid awl Algebra. Ile st-as muchin•
t, rested in reading waned the papers. as these showed
the boys thought for themselves, and were not the
-laves of Euclid, expovaing in their own language the
they had masered. In these days when
opinions were taken up secondhand he thought it was
well boys should he trained to think for themselves',
and to give their opinion on the conclusions arrived at.
Having referred to other subjects in which lie had
examined the school, he said the Latin was very good,
and was the backbone of the educition of a school.
ith regard to the general character of time
the handwriting was excellent throughout with the
e‘ception of or two boys. He Watt especially
struck by the neat and careful way in which hops
answered the questions, seeming determined to a.,
their very best, the writing and spelling being most
creditable indeed. There were one or two erratic
'Tellers, but English spelling was • matter of con-
stitution, and .nie or two boys did not seem to have it
in them to spell correctly. More young Inen who
were looking forward to be officers were turned in
spelling than in anything else, but he did not think
nine-tenth.. .4 the boys in this school would. In rirn
°et work lie had been much struck by the quiet and
"rderly conduct of the boys throughout, they being
must ambitious to do their work and vm dim their best
to keep up the credit .4 the teachers. Every year an
iothibit wan given in this school to the amount of
LlO contributed by friend*, the late Mayor ham ing
given half the 11111011nt, which had been won this year
as last by Duddy Then, again, the boy who did
hest at the Cambridge examination at Christmas
received an exhibition of 1.21. which gave him a free
education for one year at the upper achool. Having
thank.' the tarioua prize givers, and especially Mr.
Milledge, he said he thought the work of the school
was very satisfactory indeed. This school was his
1',,,'. hut, unlike some first hives, retained all its
old charms and freshness, and m thing could have been
',righter to him than to see the way in which the boys
had gone thonigh their various parts that morning.
He thought Mr. Shaw might well be proud of the
material he had to work (Ton, and the boys proud of
their master • isga and masters being well matched -
the Is.ys doing their Imed to please Mr. Shaw, and he
in turn endeavouring to if.. his utmost to advance
their interests.

The HY.AIIX.VCrIik tie ii dittributed the prize. aa
follow.: --Divinity (Upper Division) —Perry tont.
bon. mention. Gavis and Humphrey'. Lower
Bivition, Langton! ; hon. mention, Wright ma., Tuck,
I Seaman 1113. Latin and French—Form V.,
Hounjohrey ; hon. mention. Duggy ma. Form IV.,
Stone 111 A. 11011. 1114.116111, DAVIS. Form 111., Jotolaon
miii.: lions. mention, Brown um. and Reynold', Ilia.
1.1/flll 11., Parker; hon. mention. William', um—
Duololy sosi., and Newport. English Subjects and
Mathematic..—Form V., Duddy Ula, hon. mention.
Humphrey. Form IV., oludowm ma.: hon. mention,
Tizard and lhvit. Form 111., I/rake ; hon. msntion,
Thorne mmii. and .lacktom. Form' Aylet • ' loon.
mention. Langford and Seaman ma. General Prise.
Form 1., Seaman mi. hon. menti ~,, Morrit and
Parry mi. Drawing Prize—White. The prize given
annually by Mr. S. Milledge for the boy who doe"
well throughout the examination, but who fails
nett, .lly to gain any one prize. scat given to Geoffrev
Brown. who it shortly starting for Tartu:min. He
carriet with him the love of hit masters and school-
felloeort.

Mr. A. DENNIS, in 60 conroe of an eteellent
stperch, alluded in moat iwaiaeworthy tenni. to 1)r.
Miller and Mr. Shaw : also to the general efficiency of
the %allot&

DISNKT, referring to the work by the younger
borc .aid he hail ;winded Mr. Miller in Latin and
English grammar. and was Hemmed ton the work
throughout was of a very high standard. When one
had succeeded in inventing an educational measure•
ment like Latin it wa,i a fair .aandard with which to
gang*, the work of a school, awl he thought they
might thoroughly trust the whione iif education
which Mr. Shaw had net forth in the achisil.

Mr. SI INK.TICK :ttpi KIVCNKI pV won*
called laimm f..e awl duly
Th. • ..inging .4 the .tatlseu, terminated
the proceedings.