The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-07-22 00:00:00

DORSECT 00UNTY scaooL.

The asocial distribetion of prises at the Hemet
Cooney Sohnel took place this (Monday) afternoon. to
the lame ball at the school. at Charmiesteg. There
were pretest—Mr. Oliver W. Farrier, presiding Her.
R. G. Watson (Head Master). Mr. end Km H. R.
Middleton, Mies Middleton, Rev. J. 111. (Weymouth
Gollsgiate &hoof), Rey. Kr. Starry, Mrs. Sherry, Mn.
R. G. Watson, Mr. and Mrs. Spisks, Mrs. J. Leek,
Mn, A. Spicer, Mr. awl Kra. PAVAN, WIG PATON, MUMS
fook, Mra. Watson, Mr. Harding, Mist Hardiog,
Mr. J. Good, Mrs. J Look, Kr., P. Lott, Mr. Alladyee,
Mr. Scutt (Bore Rosh) and family, Mrs. W. Halpin,
The CHAIRMAN 'lli Ile first thing was to ask for the
reporte of the examiners, and he called upon the only
one pre!ent

lie Rev. Jogs Suns, of Klugtos read the
following report, addressed to the Heed Master :-
" Looking over the pears has hese a very groat plea.
cure. The &nears on ta Old and New Testament
pears gave many evideonag of the boys having been
carefully taught, not oaly the letter sod fat of history,
but the moaning and relationhip of on fact with
another. There was also la preadon and directnese,
and orderly wrangement of aura want iodinated
o.refal and systematic Mashing; and this chariot., of
the trailing vu *hewn also by the feet that is few of
the boys rade a guess at the answer. The quistions
wo.-a darned to test thoroughly the keowledge of the
bon, yet seta like that of Me rug'. of Jehinehin,
the incidents proullar to A Mark's Gospel, and the
oboolete worts used In the Many-were deolitind to
test the scaracy of that kaowledira. In neither of I
these did the boys fall. And while I Mask you for the I
opportunity of ennaning the school Is Divinity, I mast
coonnelat• you on the susessefal realt.-Jan I
Burns "-Mr. tkath added that he hoped the time
woold ono. when Me Natal would be animated a it
Luna to be. By Me bon receiving ma goad, earth!,
systematic teaching, Out school *paid mot but do gad
In many homes throughout the seighbourhood, the
county, and the diocese. He treated Kr. Watson
woold be spared many years to be at the head of the
school, and that be might yar by year have • larger
number of puptle-(applisase.)
The CungNill regretted the abeam of tie Rev. C.
W. Blogban, whom report. be read se follows :-"To
begin with the Irma I salsa almost presisay report
• automata male by one of the Cualwidge liuniaors
la their lan report; that the pussies gins from the
book the boys lad prepared were. &haat universal',
Ism earectly translated than the plea amen from an
unknown author, which, however. as artainly in
Itself somewhat seeder. The simple phreses,-two of
them chosen from the portion they had been reading,
-were either altogether declined, or very poorly
rendered, the plantt cf abasatives, and the
femlninesof ad,eSro4, oe the Ira* farts given' but
the verbs la no sae Preelair *onset The few bO7
. whom I had an opportunity of testing in the matter of
pronouns:dation, disposed me to hze that very con-
siderable impromment his been in • Is tble reepeet,
sines I last naiad than ; sad, on the wholes, I
Mink those ire marks of program., laugh there Is
doebtler room for mach more, only 'debt of them, I
bel as. having niched half the number at which I
oeisog the paper. With regard to the Boglino History,
though of sane there is mush &Noma bet eta the
varlose papers, they appear to me to be eimarally
Bonn of the boys have answered them
ve-
ry lnt.lligeotly, t.dae oomposi!lon of Moir answers
being not without literary mgt.!. Tbe 'Mita Ind
spelling of the papers are also, ler the nod pen,
erstlyi,g. I have given ens troy in the fourapform,
(C. H. Gamin.) I extra marks for the peculiar neatness,
end order of hi paper,- an aesomplishatent, 'MUM, In
these days of *unmade" eraminatiou, deserves to be
soma isseeuraged, es likaly to anti-Mote to macaw
As an old. and I hope I any now sty • retired,
Zambia, I nature to whiner that nothing is mon
sure to keep es In mood humour.
The Ham) Kann read Me report of the Rev. F.
W. Kauseril. the meaner in Grammar al DitegmFbi,
as fellows !-" The &guru already forwarded all have
lodated aesurnely the relative postdate of the boys
in the respective forms. As, howner, presiesly 'the
same vales um allowed to ash reales, from what-
ever form tuitalley or partial eauwey ete" him au
reamed, I Mal lb asge ate bop of the lifth end
eigth forms irbotbor they thick it sakklisolorY that theft
• ilkoild he beam in geography, ad Needled
o.be the faith form. The answering of the
In gram-. is the fourth form gm; egUmoly
grit six or seven yo, • -4. th forme geoire the like
good. If the boys of thellifto o. • • -.1 haws."
ootanleni&Cioll.
.they inoit put a wider ease..
. . . .

ihemielvee and Nog; janio;s at future examinations.
I have to mill atteation alas to this strange asd almost
utiacueuntableolreamistenee. I was very favoarably
impressed by, the general exiollanes of the spelling and
grammar is ...rzr papers; but, when I mune I.
the geogrsphleal I Nand that the boys Indulged
them . selves in ogropithal and 'mt.:noel exosesse--
eosentrie spelAng sad Debolous grammar met me at
Soo?, tern. I. however, took ao nett°, Of t 0...
vagaries in valuing the manners. Whether the verbal
apputotas employed on a grazioner paprr Is stapler
Malt that repaired for one on •geography, or whether
there may he more paper work In the ordinary gram-
ma. lemons thee in tame 00 roogrsphy what-
ever the reason, the fan is as I have stated it,
and requires the serious streakiest of the boys, ,
No. with regret to the questions themselves. Nome ,
were answered in excellent style—briefly, clearly, and
fully—bat lu some the meanies seemed to nagger like
• drunken into through a toast of uuneesesary verbiage
relishing home at last more by good look thee good
ruidouze, and In others, not so fortunate, he lay down
to the mire and fell Weep. It is hardly reasonable to
exposit an seamiest to puPply the Prolau subject to
sentence, bat I, 'where I eould fairly do 40, have
charitably sought slam the weadialog noun, brought
him home, and expelled the impertinorn -•' id" whisk
had usurped his place--ellowlig vales to the itorreated,
answer —of coarse where two or more 001104
presented &altar, equally good, to wimpy the
place of "It," I wee oampalled to out the matter
thort 1,1 titrinsig all the parties oat of wart. Let In.
*Quoit the boll to be apes their guard spinet thom
ensnaring parte of immesh f,gled,cio kaass. The pro-
noun should be handled Sildh oy and reserve.
Substitutes are always Wirier to t whi,:h they
reprommt—therefor• whenever foe osa, with propriety,
employ the now, do not sager your noun to be hustled!
wide sad brawled by any pronoun, however boldly ho
may demean ititemilt roe eta:lleac* sad oleoresin of
Lord kLmmulay's style are ass to this amongst other
miaow, namely, that proooans are sedelowlp shunned,
wherever possible. When I hove sold that several of
the awe were oreditable to the writers, I skill haw
Instated upon every point deaerving emensent. Every
boy should endeavour to esquire a style at 0040
Apron!, simple sad pure. The life of everybody,
toe, shonld bp the counterpart of snob s style."—Y. W.
MAVIS/Lt.

-111-x-.-Warent next reed thp rert of Kr, H. M.
Kral*, ot Qaestee Oatabfid tho swains-
slop la Btatipairie ktiot:ard 11 :—"
th• 'parks of UN Elbakapeare work • aud I wish to eoe-I
rep opiaioo that the tosehlog bail bee* very.
thorough, sod the multi such as to impress on.. a
very high eptalm of he efficient dieraphas carried eat
I. the seikOoi."—H. U. Moots. - -

Yr. WATSON tea& t te report of Dr. ribber, Ms I
elaiiimel smairtor : —" 1 Mom milldam& thm apple

ahem et the (booty &bell Is Leib,. Th. aubjsct
brosght up for altrallaaarat was part of tho 23rd Nook
of Ll•y. 'the bor. wi-re ituitaioed to tinu euriset by •
winked pato.r roottioieg winairee for us i•lst tia, with
• tow gretutuatle.l sad histories, qawitiwis Teo quo-
Non WPC, in ser•ral steal ausWered Very fwly,
• opeatally those onuawted widi paving sad rrsaamitieel
a .oeiruatton. Th treaelations did o nee up to 011
ozipiotetiwe and, with very few wcoetitioae., weft very
deBaiont an ihoo.anaely sad etyle of *Liu •ftios. I .tiould
thelownwrvi inoreued atteetwa iu thew 1-uportuit
palate. I wood mewilea Altrdyo. sod 0
hseinir Wiwi bust to ttui pill of p,„,z,
VLITUkfal."

t of the I',,,..examinauoa I hove runt pleasure 10 5M154 thst
a.l'n}Le Hir.ri Mtt. %%% % tot,
the 13411 have on the shot. p mini • very eatielesnrr
examination in their Mathematic% There la • marked
Improvement la the Stolid sine the last time that I
had the pinions of examining, and the sarataarr of
marks will show that a very fair average has bees
obtained by most of As boy.. The same may be sett
generally of the Arithmetic. The Algebra was woak,
and wanted accuracy. The Paper on Conaittrioal
Problems sod McGhee's' was very fairly attacked by
many, but was &anent in shennoss el °epeeists% In
the 6th form, Carter stands first in *very subject end
did onesdingly well, gaining 418 mark. out of 571
Oirderent. Elitehoosk and Johnson, all did wolL Is
the sth form, Allarlyse I. and Boon It. ass inaptly
clod sad both dawn groat praise. Watts IL mood
I first to &mild, and Cox I. wet tut along with Sant
' 11. Is Algebra, so that En &virago of this f rm stands
' very ps..oly. Lathe 4:t. form, Green la faille orisons,
being 150 marks ahead of the text, and his work was
done with great natant sad aleoerny. I. lb. 3rd
form, Haskell did otandingly well la all bis subjects,
end his work was spinally non sod clear. In tho 2nd
form, Bardos did very will In Arlibiaistie and tits early
rule. of Algebra. I may add that the whole the
work sho tru up was nmersably neatly and clearly
writtara so that the labour of 1 Hokin, over the papers
was materially lammed. —R. IL WATT*"
The Iload-liastor read the prig, Ilia as follow.:—
By Scansiaatioa Ifarks.—Vl form, Carter; V. form,
I Allardyes I. ; IV. form, Green; ILL form, Haskell;
If. sod L form, Barden. By Ones M nos. —Hitch-
cock, Watts IL, Green, Wadouta, Mons% Divinity.
—Johnson, Cordon% Lnis.—Allardyoe I, Grahame,
Groom Tsylor.—Mathematiot.— Carter, Allardyos I
end Senn 11. equal, Green. History.—Httohoook.
Goonsetry sad Meohank..—Certior. ?resod—W*lth I.
Erns Prix 4.-001 111. mad Cox IV.
The prises, whin eonsiend of boodsomely bound
books, gins by the Benno of Saliebore, 1f,.. W. 18. B.
Portman, M.P., ttr. KG. Start, li.P., Mn. J. Player,
M.P., Rev. F. Warre, he., wore nes promoted by Mr.
Ferrer, the boys heartily applauding the suooesetal
pupils.
Mr. Fatima said on the whole he thought he might
' von decidedly inessential* both masters and boys on
the reports the examiners were able to maks Of
warn, they did sot extent perfection : the boy. cane
Ito lona and there was *roar evident. that they wets
bang ti;nrolighlt Lad roompleitely taught. He WM much
grstlfirod that Mr. loath hod bona able to speak so
' highly of that men Important of all loatractioa,raigions
lastruotion, and not In the loan Garter-Ind to find that
!In some other brearnes the examiners Dad very properly
"let the lan Into them' • little bit. They ail resented
the &beano. .sth. 'Manahan supporter sad founder of
the school —the Arebdesoon of Dorn% but he was at a
distal:ion He wee disappointed that the Dumber of
boys at the school was far Wow what It donned to
have • sad far below what be felt son, by the blaming
of God, it would have. The onincdl knew the nano
of the diminution of their Danboro; non wits no
necessity to go into the past, but noes nun had been
absolutely removed, and Dover sonid reser. Why he
was so enctildont of the animate assent of the school
was bonen Its °Orton were good, and thoroughly
*Menai matins wen adopted to wry theta
out. The preepsete. stated the 'shoal was Intaaded
"to provide in the must, el Dorset • religion, moral,
useful, and liberal oniatieu, In nonfinite with the
prineiples, doctrine, and discipline of the Chan* of
ileglaad, and on the pablis Wool arena, for the sons
of yeomen, tradesana, mershaats, and profsselonal
men." He remarked oa the importune of erinanna
aa distingalshod from though imbuing lastrootion, and
urged tho neessity of knowing subjoin tharoaghlr
from the foundation, and In Boob a way as to be at all
time. applisable. He particularly haprossed span them
to remetabrir the fasts of Christianity, observing that
shot they were taught as to our Lord', birth, life,
death, resarrestion, and Annie& were a. much facia
as had bees Uneaten.** of Napoleon Innovator' and
Julius Caen. The pabllo school system adopted,
though it bad its disadvantages, was !telly important.
It taught boys to take ears of themselves—to SDI
" fendablo" 1 Yorkshiremsa said defied thoissolvos,
offead nobody; to be trathlul sat mealy. By the ,
kindness of hir. Harper, of the litterboroo esitool, the I
whole staff of that distinguished school had examined I
the pupils hors, and thole reports were In ter
mor, favourable terms than noes of the private
examiner,. Lis bad always isaUctipatad good of
the school, and woo astisAod It deserved
well of ths minty. It was a matter for oen-
gratulation that the Donn County &non had been
sel.otad by the saithoritios is the none for the Cam-
bridge Local Exacainotioss, and he hoped many boys
of the school would be neonatal thereat. He thought
sompititive examisniosis were isarried • great deal too
far, but se bad been said "In the.. Bans the publis
trill hay. Etainiacions," and they must bs ciontaat to
mat thcco. He 4 era ton toe advantage of the wiorklag
for an examianien evion though one were not moms-
fal, and spoke of the value of • Cembeidgs Local
ixamination cortilliate. Hs again expressed hie con-
fidantes to the futon susses of the anooL If half its
merits wino known, seeing the great demand for
edasation, instead of having to speak of diodnatioa,
the ball would be so full of boys that than would
hardly be room for anybody ens He appealed to the
boys as to having enough to eat, their games, he.. and
as to the health of the school said the doctor's b:II for
th• year was under £3—laughter). In that school they
sought to &nein the high object described ia the
Latin phraes—Meas seas in corpora Rama The boys be
I mutinied of the tuppenny' of making good see of
Inns school days—to make the bast an of their intel-
lect; aad In their holidays to show to the., below them
, they wore Is Use hiohest OMNI of the word gentlemen.
He helloed the labour difilealty whin looked so
tinntiosing 1.8 moans ago would now be got anoint'
oatiefenorlis, in ocasequatie of the good feeling
and honest desks oa the port of the is...e-
nema meicrily of t%ii employers to be just
and kind, and do their duty by those they
employed. LI them show • kindly goatiemealy die-
polities' to aIL Flnally he affeatloOstaly urged throat
to be vigonse, onsple. end pen." Then they would
be • imodit to the Institution in witieh he had always
taker, and should °continue ante, thigroatost interact
—(apping° )
Mr. MIDDLIOOII proposed a Tots sif thanks to Lb.
examiners

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The BA.. J. MUTE, insight& rsitanted hie high
spproval of tra sarnsra sandal, rad syStraistio trashing
al tits sacra

—Tanerit- W-4/•11- MM.'S • 'VW 04 ihMits to Kr.

Ivattaist brio& maid,
Caws los Kr. Furor. th• Hoot Nook", tie
itascaloota, dead the prosbodlaga.
A. offirt is Wag nada to mob a lose °earl fee Us
lattool ; abost 860 have boss istrorlbsd, bad mono £4O
or MO mono ars needed.