The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-07 00:00:00

HARSOW SCROOL I'ARBFF ALL TO THS REP

11A. VAUGHAN.

Lost evening nearly 260 gentlemen, Harrow men
sad old Harrovisns," dined together at the Franamots'
Tavern, to do honour to the 1b.,. Dr. Vaughan, who bas
the office of headmaster. The chair was filial
traZ.neirtaiuts, as havMg hese captain of the .cull
la Dr. Vaughan's first year. Bed Spasm, Viscount S.
dcm, Viscount Mahon, Vimooat Hamilton, the Hoe. Chan
Leigh, the Hon. Reginald Carl, Mr. Abel Smith, fd.P.,
Mr. Ralph Erie, end Mr. Spencer Pen:oval were amonget the
mom y.
After gram, gad the loyal Mame, the CSAIMAN_ ,Deal
Dr. V•oghaa's health, expressing the ardent affection sod
eathesisedo gratitude of all his purls for the lest Masi
rare.
The Rev. Dr. V4I3OIAN, with moth feeling, returned
Arks. In the ordinary worse, he mid, there were but three
mums to terminate a haul roaster'a oonoesiou with a school—
death, failing strength, or ecciesasucal preferment. His
ivabluon had been to eascoplity • fourth; be had .wished to
leave the @oboe' which he had served at the vs+ y 'summit of
its prosperity. (Hear.) It Wei • work of great dab:inky and
anxiety to metro' Ave hundred mum human wills, subject to
enemy gust of temper and peed" and without est:orison to
keep them .tall. In Guth a life, teaching am a relaxation,
and the boon be spent with his loth form were the lightest,
the most delightful, he knew. The prceperity of • school
was precarious, end public opinion was not always just. Alter
flicilmLiveers of ardooue toil and °credos.' dangers, he now
some repose—net a period of idleness, Mud domes*
privacy. It had been the filed bamboo at his great master,
Dr. Arnold, at the close of his fifteenth year at Rugby, to
retire to his home in the north, and occupy himself with the
°barge of private pupils, for which he refused sexiseissioal
advancement. Death to the fourteenth year revealed Dr.
Arnold from doing what he (Dr. Vaughse) waeaew permitted
to do. He had never meant to wait till he should be made a
area era dean, for no snob preferment should tempt a sensi-
ble man from such • post es that et headmaster of Harrow.
He vindicated himself from any objection that might be
raised to his retirement upon short notice, by remarking that
it was not good for the school to undergo • long period of
uaseresdaty. lie was very trendy cheered.
Lour in the rem*, Dr. Vanessa propomed the health
of hie enommor, the Bar H. Montego Butler, an old pope
el his, and former bead of the mho.* whom ha thought the
inset man la all England to take his place as headmaster.
Mr. &M AIL duly acknowledged the compliment.
Other meets were spoken to :—" The Governors of Hammy
*T" by Mr. Cunningham (ems of the Vicar of Harrow,
./ them) ; The Ilalvendisa," by Mr. Hawkins
" The Heeds of the School la Dr. Vaughan's Wee by Mr.
Trimaran; and " The Honor Cricket Elms," by Mr.
D rty ; beside. whom Loan opener and Sudan, sad Mr.
Modes Legh, !addressed the censpeay.
It was announced that dosages of 1,0001. had been wads
by an old Harrovian, to establish • asernoriel of Dr.
Vaughan's mastership, tu theshape of a library for the me of
the upper hundred boys of the school. Other °attributions,
amounting to 1,0001. more, had been promised, and it was
ProCto raise 4,0001. in ell.
yaof the company had come from Orford sad Cam-
bridge to this dinner, and renamed by the West babe.