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

PRIZE DAY AT THE COLLEGE.

A large number of late, and gentlemen auembled on
Thursday at the Weymouth OA. g 4, on occasion ut the
prise distribution. The schoo!roons wu atir.ictuely
decorated, and some of the by. sang goes, under the
leadership of Mr. U. Thorns, at to Ti,. head.
mastsr, Rae. C. R. Gilbert, wss supports I by the Mayor
(R. N. Howard. Eq ),R. ff. E ist. Eq.', and the Reci
Key. T. Greayss. The ioliowiug report ou the school wink
woe read . . .

" The Divinity ',alsr was on the whole dons very fairly.
though only ono bop —Falkner lo'ft tined ?store than h •If
marks. Tne sesta ma-ka se .e: ally ohtfined were pertly
due to the excesoive Line d 'sot to ono or two question.,
hut pat t y al•o to the husri-d and ungianinsatical way in
wit ch eiviwere, oaerwi C mead, were eXprresad.
Hod tab.—The gesstr,phocal p per wee tl 'meet fry, and a
large p salon of tse b yf obtained gsod marks. Not malty.
however, were able to give all the drltailions o ninety. ,
Seenlyn (Aim' Falkner W.) were the higheft.
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In history S.:swan (i.) Liam was Irghest and Felkner
(ii) second, bet with a co t.elerable gap bet•eeo ahem.
rue paper ass .n elementary one, watt SeOltal boys would
her,, ob•totriod higher mares if th ot had not spent too
to tub time ovt, a tew qu •.t .414 Whiel tiler answeielvery
ul y. I was much pleas. d with the Shakspear pet or,though
see ag, number or marks w.s ut .o hush a in 131.tory and
trews; hy. The boys mom to have lien thoroughl
Intereated In the play, and understood lts I delft
Tbe paraphrasing wan generally good. Toe questions
.1' detail were nut so well answeted, notably
No. 3, on the usee of particolar words. S .mlll
was again at the top ; but Daw.on and Browne
also dmerve ho meltable metal in, In the Emrich
Crammer and se ay paper t:.e grammar seems $3
have been quite treyond the grasp ot moot of the boy.:
Seaman (1.) and Stringer were the only two who gave
correct answers. On the other hand nearly all the boys
appear to have a good ideate( writing an essay, sod several
wrote in a very spirited style. Br an and Muule deserve
great praise for their esmays on " The life of • Sailor.'
The Flcllo pap rs appeared to be too hard for Form 111.
I, tee of them especially attempted say of the grammatical
que.tions ; B wham (t ) obtaintd the high,st number of
mark& Form IV. Was much more suocessful. half the
Icy. obtaining over half marks. Stringer and Eliot (IQ
•I•••erve lipid it mention, the former for his tran•lation of
French into Eng.i.ll, and the lat Sr for the best piece of
rennet 'rid French otos() out of th Viree who attempted it.
Falkner (1.) and Se peen (i.) at.° did good paper,. The
marks were chi. fly obtoisle 1 In tran.lation. The La in
papers were done w-ll ou the able. Hare in Farm Vl•.
Stringer in Form IV., and Masterman ii Fin in 111. were
very good, the las; specially dowering Crest credit for the
care with which he reg.r led casts and [times, which were
stately neglecteu but some others who clearly had lesroed
more Latin than he. In aromas:or Stringer wee the bed,
and Mastering' the beet in Fenn 111. More masks would
bays been obtained if the pup-us had been better written
an I arranged. Both prepared and unseen translation.,
were fair, but ••veral seem to have been too hurried to
look at the, construction of aentenc is. lJ.ietees wrtting and
disregard of coustructrens appeared together. Toe saute
fault was noticeable In the coupoeitton, which with that
exeeption was moderately g
Greet—ln grammar D.ckiason (i.) did well, and the
others fairly. In tranelation Hare (Form VI.) was good,
specially in the unseen, but a little apt to be too florid.
The 'Medea' (Form IV.) was done we I. particularly by
Stringer : but the unseen translation st•emed rather t4O
hard for that Farm. The boys of Form 111. seemed to be
quite beginner. in Greek, but they did pretty well in the
'Xenophon paper,. The mathematical papers were
apparently rath-r to hard. In Form IV. litaneam was the
beet both in Eaclid and Algebra. The sothuditic was
done very fairly. The cheinadry answers showed • fair
knowledge of the subject, bit considerable difficulty was
found, as wee natural, In the description of experiment..
S...tman'e paper W 64 good. I cinnot conclude without
expresippg spy catidaction at the ev•dent attention
paid by the great majcmity of the by, to the
general
matter of each sobj...cr., and. at t e saint) time regrettiog
that BO many marks were lost unnecessarily by a neglect
of such details as gratutua.., spelling, and writing—U.
W. Joiresoe, 8.A., Saho'ar of T lofty °elicit, Gem.
bridae."
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Prix w were distrlbuted according to
THE PSIS; LIST.

Exhibition of £l5, given by Sir Frederic Johnetone.—
Sirt neer.
VI Form vizi, for general subiects, Felker 1
Divinity, IV F hlilosan's History of Vie Jewr,
Felker ;II Th,,mson, iste,man ;
Baal, IV, Shakspeere, 13 vol&, Seamsn ; 11, Tenny-
son, Hasterm,n
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by Homrr, Stringer ; 111, igacaulav's
Essays, Eliot ; If. Humes, Morant ;
Mathematics. IV, etwmollsy'a H Amy. Benham I; 111,
Tennyson. Miley; 11, Halton, Brownian ;
M.alrrn L (french and Hamra), IV. iliton.
Seaman i;ILL Carlyle, Bushman I, 8 min Ili .1 ;IL.&mit,
Mastermsn ;
Natural Science, IV, Chemistry nf Comm In Life,
Seeman I; IIL Chemistry of a Candle, Otti y ; tf, Wood'.
Common Objects, lforant ;
Drawing, Lanriseer, D...n; i4 nein& Herbert's Works,
Dickinson; Botterflier, Book ol Birds, Hanwell.
The Mayo-, Mr. Edo', e 1 the Rae, T. Greaser, as well
as the Headmaster, delivered address.., and the proceed-
ings ternsinamd with the sial.ittr of "Duic Domum." and
several rounds of cheer/.