The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-23 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY SCHOOL.

The annual distribntion of school prises took plain on
Tnestay atternoini, et the trationalt, before . tair
weemblage of the mends of the boys. 0. W. Ferrer,
Seq., preaided, supported by the Ven. Arohdeaeon
Sanctuary, the Rev. R. G. Watson (Head Master), the
Rev. Prelarndary T. A. Baker, the Rev. W. Barnes,
the Rev. J. Fisher. the it.,. F. Mann/4 the Ray..l"
Warre, the Rey. R. R. Watts, ke.
The Chairman having briefly opened the promoting+,
The Rev. Prebendary Baker, the examiner in Divinity,
made his report After none general remarks on
aducatios, he observed that ths Divinity papers ware
eery good, but those upon the "Evidences of
Christianity" were generally defective, though this, he
said, was onninonly fount to be the ewe. Re
upon then, the truth of an old motto in front of I
Ce.eeredbory school, "If you would be full of learning,
lots your hooka"
The Ven, Archdeacon Sanetuiry real the report of
the Rev. C. W. Bingham (who was prevented attend-
ing), the examiner In neology and French. Reminding
the former be asi I the papers wire fairly done, though
some of the bays hopelessly omfased the radiate and
mollusc,- As to the French he did not think it hod
been studied with so math accuracy as it deserved, if it
wal to be studitui at all. The pronunciation was not
sufficiently attended to, and he observed that this was •
point of pod Important*.
'rns it.,.. F. alaunsell was the examiner in Reglialt
grammar, composition, dictation, history, and gee.
graph;, and hit judgment upon the bop.' papers es a
whole was that they were uncommonly good. At the
some time he recommended some of to m to pay attain.
tion to spelling, and he warned thi.m against
Americanism., ouch as leaving out the second I In
traveller, the U in favour, and no on ; also to avoid their
peculiar formations of the tenses of verbs. instancing a
pevage in Dr. Kaye.' "Arctic Voyages," be dove
under the ship" nuked of he dived. In these matters
he advised them to follow the classic writers In
our own language, such sa Addison, Froude,
Shakespeare, Spenser, Tennyson, do, and then
they would not fall into vulgarities of style.
Turning to speak of the chamotei of the school, he
sail he beloved It exemplified Bacon's maxim, "Boy.
ought oast to learn what molt they will require when
they become men." In conclusion he recommended
the bola to work hard. Finally, he said that at them
annual me, tines he should like to see some of the boys
doing a little elocution—realties "Brutus and Cambia,"
" Pitt'. reply t Welpole," to., a suggestion which was
warotly..&ppl!utd. . _

--Tim'Heir. F. Warn, who was the examiner In Latin,
reported that the papers presented evidences that the
boys were being well taught, although the prodeieney
attained was not very great
The Hay. It R. Watts was the examiner In mathe-
matics, arithmetic, drams, and Euclid. The arithinetie
papers were a httle below par, but perhaps that occurred
through his questions being harder than they ought to
bare been ; but, on the whole, he was very much
pleated. and two or three boys did remarkably well.
Bethought thug I standard attained we. vary good
for this school.

The Chairman then delivered an address. He thought
the rep.rir of *ho sasmisars we's highly satisfsctr.rp.
The boys bad not been flattered, but had had their faults
plainly indiested : they lied done their work, like
boys, fairly well; they had not done it like
angels by any mauls. He then recalled at
some length the objects for which the school was
established. and pointed out that they had been
attained to. gratifying degree. He then advised the
boys to be trimly and pure, commended to them the
old Witiehi Stu maxim, "Manners maketh man," and
exhorted them to hbow that the Dorset County School
turned net boys who are really and thoroughly Patin'
suen—litheers). Mr. Ferrer then distaibated the prises
as follows;

PRIZE LIST.