The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-08-02 00:00:00

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"Midsummer Night's Eir;;iii-;" (Shakespeare), Act v.,
Scene 1. The latertu4e.
Theseus ... A. It. A. Nicol.
Demetrius ... A. C. Plowman.
Hippolyta K. V. Williams.
Glee, "To Datiotlilt," (Nichols).
" L'Avocat Patella " (BrueTe). Act ii.. Scene 9.
Petelio, Avccat ... A. 0. Scutt.
Arutslot, Berger._ .E. V. Willisms.
Pert song. "The San& of Dee," (.1. Idleclerron. the School
_ _ _ Lhoir. . .

The Rev. S. It Nichols conducted the whole of the
music. Ms glee "To Daffodils" is a very tuneful and
pretty piece of music, and was well performed. Much
amusene•nt was mimed by the scenes from "Mideammer
Night's Dream."
Alter the programme the exhibition and certi.
finites were distributed, and the Rey. T. Russel.
Wright made Ms usual report on the school's progress.
The liz its Metre; then addressed the company in
regard to the work in the school daring the past year.
One felt on these occisions like the captain of a vessel
alter • voyage, thankful that he bad brought his crew
safe ashore. They had had during the past year, per-
haps, more than an ordinarily prosperous voyage' •
they bad increased the number of their crew, and they
bad met with a larger measure of succese in whet
Shakespere would call their "venture.." There were
several matters of interest connected with the labour
the poet year to which he would venture to refer.
With reference to how the school was made up, which
miaht be of interest to those who had honoured them
with their presence that day, they totted that above
one-third of the boys were tons of professional men,
clergymen, doctors, and officers if the army and ntvy.
About one-half were sons of yeomen either in this
county or in the neighbouring counties; and in one or
two cane boys came from distant parts of England.
The remainder were the sons of parents following mis-
cellaneous callings. Another important matter he
referred to %la., the blessing of health which had been
their lot during the past year, and they had exercised
this blessing to achieve • measure oi success in their
work for which they ought to be very thankfuL As
to their successes at public examinations, they did not
want to boast, but he believed he was correct in saye
log that their successes were not equalled by Amy
other school in the diocese. Their games, too, had
been exceedingly well looked after. At football they
had played ten matches and lost none, and all Use
matches were played against fairly good clubs, such is
Poole, Dorchester, Sherborne, and, he believed,
YisoviL During the cricket 45/SOLI they had played '
about twelve matches, out of those they had woo
eight. NO in each one of the matches which they had
led there ,‘,.•,c1 always been a score of over 100 runs, so
that they might their cricket team this year was ,
very respectable. The Head Muter alluded to im-
provements that bad been effected in the school
buildings. They had commenced / covered erection
for the use of the boys in the winter, wh:.4l would be
a very great benefit to them indeed. With reOrd t
the internal arrangements, there had been some slight
alterations made, to which he felt it his duty to
allude. They had three departments in the school—
the general school, to which the bulk of the boys be-
longed; then there WM what was called the speolal
department, in which boy, who were somewhat older
than they were in the habit of receiving were prepared
for public examinations. They did net find that it into':
f tired in any way with the general good of the school. If
they found that to be the case they would instantly
drop the department, and attend solely to the general
school work; but they found that one part helped on
the other, and that being the case they would continue
to develop this deptrtment. Then there was another
department, with which personally he was extremely
pleased. Numerically it was not large, but the results
of the work hal been extremely good, and the benefit,
to the boys had been very great. As goon as parent,
thoroughly uuderstood the working of it, it would be
• department of the school that would soon be quite
full: he alluded to the preparatory deportment. They
were quite prepared to take boys 1111 early as seven
years of age, and the largir number he had the better
could they be cared for. He knew that so far the
little boys bad done very much better than they would
In the bigger school, and gradually they had been mu-
pared for the scisooL They liked their position, they
were proud of it, and they took great pains to uphold
the character of their little school. He was extremely
gratified to find that so far as this experiment had
gone it hal been attended with good results. He ex-
premed his thanks for the valuable aid of his c. -
tutors. They had rendered him every possible
assistance, and he might say that he had never had
Ruch valuable help as he had during the past term.
He nsfernsd particularly to the program made in music.
What they had heard that afternoon was ample
evidence that somebody had been there at work, and
fcr this he expressed hie great thankfulness. After
alluding to the various successes of the old boys, and
other matters of gratification, the Head Master
thanked very heartily the generous cintributors
towards their prize list. They had a noble colleetion
of books, which they could not have had but for kie
generosity of some of the leading members of the
county families, and others who took an interest in
the school. He then asked Canon Bankee to give the
prizes to the successful boys.
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Form VI. None awarded. Form V. "Greasy'
Battler," presented by the Rev. f.,lsnon G. L. Nub, A. 0.
Scutt, Form IV.—" Historical Chalacters," presented by
bite Be,. Canon F. J. Rooks, J. 1.. Firth. loran 111.—
Stories from Virgil," resented by the Rei. Canon Sir
Tanicit IL a Baker. Bart E; H. Coombe. Form
" Voyage Round the Wo-idikat. presented by the Its!.
Canon E. S. Banks_ T. K. Modern A.—Not
awarded. Modern R.—Not awarded.
aPiCtod.iCIPICTS
Lltin.—" Becker's Hellos," presented by the Very Rev.
the Dean of Salisbury, F. N. Pickford.
Greek.—Given with Latin. F. N. Pickford
Matbeuaattes.—" The See; by Hartwig. presented *
Mr. J. C. Mitneel-Pleydeil. E. H. Biddlettombie.
English.— "Trench on Iltpdy of Words," presented by
Mr R. Williams. J. L Fir*.
Vr.uch.—" Bacon's Essays." preessied by Mr. R. Thorn-
ton. E. H. Biddl,combe.
Chnwl.try.—" Life of • Scotch tlsturslist.• &:„.assoted
by the Rey. the Hoottompater, K H. Biddletom
" Light Schism for Leisure Hours,' pet.
pouted by Roy. K. Ludlow. A.. 0. Scutt; vroo,l'.
Natural History," presented by Rev. Capon 0. w.
Bingham, W. J. Chick.
Music.—Not awarded.