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persons were to form the nucleus of future develop..
ment as the funds increased. In fact, Alleyne in his

statutes spoke of " foreigners " who were to
resort to his school, evidently intending it to be
like Eton or the Charter-house, with a foundation

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and oppidans, or town boys, to be benefited by his
bequest. Unfortunately, his views were not carried
out by his successors. The estate increased in value,
but the foundation did not increase, and the

not accomplish what it was intended to do. At last
Parliament was constrained to interfere. Au act was
thereupon passed for the purpose of remedying the
evil, and a new reconstruction of the college took
place. Although many things which they would

have liked to see retained had been swept away, and
although they would gladly have seen other provi-

sions omitted from the act, yet they believed that in
the main it carried out the design of Alleyne in ac-
cordance with the spirit of the age. It provided for

an improved education for an additional number of

scholars, and equally increased the eleemosynary

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will largely add to these as theirincreasing resources
shall allow.
The site of the interesting ceremony was enlivened
by a liberal display of flags. Aplatform was erected
for the principal spectators, and a spacious booth
just opposite enabled about 500 of the local gentry,
clergy, &c., to witness the proceedings. The band
of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance, and
the boys of the Upper and Lower School were of
course delighted to participate in an event of so
much importance in the annals of the college. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer had consented to lay
the foundation stone of the new buildings, and the
proceedings derived a further interest from the at-
tendance of the President and Council of the Royal
Academy, who made their annual inspection of the
pictures, and afterwards honoured the ceremony
witb their presence. Unfortunately, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer was called by his Ministerialduties
to attend the Queen at Windsor, and under these
circumstances the governors unanimously requested
their chairman, the Rev. William Rogers, M.A.,
Rector of Bishopsgate, to act as his locum tenens.
The governors arrived at the site at about 2 o'clock
when the Rev. W. Rogers ascended the platform,
accompanied by Mr. H. E. Adair, M.P., Mr. Tite,
ALP., Mr. Stone, M.P., Dr. John Perry, Sir F.
Grant, President of the Royal Academy, Mr. J. P.
Knight, secretary, Mr. C. Landseer, keeper, Mr.
Redgrave, Mr. C. N. Cope, Mr. J. C. Horsley.
Mr. E. Cooke, Mr. S. Cousins ; the Rev. Dr. Carver,
Master of the College ; the Rev. W. F. Greenfield,
Master of the Lower School ; and theßev. S. Cheet-
ham, Chaplain of the College. Among the general
company were Sir Roderick Murchison, Colonel
Adair, Colonel Macdonald, Mr. James Fergusson,
Mr. H. Staunton, Mr. C. Barry, surveyor to the
college ; Mr. Downs, contractor ; the representa-
tives of the parishes locally interested in the benefits
of the college, &c.
The architect having presented to the chairman a
bottle containing the Times of that day, the Act of
Parliament newly incorporating the college, the
last college list of school honour, the programme of
the day, and the coins of the realm, it was duly in-
serted in a cavity in the stone. The work of lower-
ing the stone commenced, the school choir chanting
" Except the Lord build the house." The Chair-
man, after the usual preparations, declared the
corner -stone of the new college buildings to be well
and truly laid. A collect having been read by the
chaplain of the college,

The CHAIRMAN said he regretted most deeply the
absence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the
more so because no man knew more about education,
and especially education of the kind which that college
was intended to supply. The present was a proud
day for Dulwich, and one which would have glad-
dened the heart of old Alleyne had he been alive to
see it, for he was persuded that the Governors
were acting in accordance with his wishes and inten-
tions. Alleyne was a man of large soul, and in-
tended his college to be a much larger establishment
than it had hitherto been. The original college
founded by him in 1619 consisted of a master, a
warden, four fellows, six chanters, six poor brethren,
six poor sisters, and 12 poor scholars. It could never
be supposed that ho intended to limit his foun-
dation to this establishment. On the contrary, these

" foreigners" were never heard of. The boys were
not sent to the University because none of them
were fit, and those who had the care of them took
precious good care that they should not be fit. (A
laugh.) Iti fact, that most splendid institution did
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branch. 'I he management of the affairs of the
college was intrusted to 19 governors, eight of
whom were selected by the four parishes named by
the founder, and 11 appointed by the Crown. Un-
der the governors the chief officer of the college was
the master. There were two schools—one, the Upper
School, for a higher class whose education was more
extended, for whom exhibitions were provided at the
University, and who paid £8 per annum ; and the
other, the Lower School, for a humbler class, paying
£1 a year, and whose education was of a more prac-
tical kind, fitting them for trades and business.
In each school there were foundation boys, who were
educated, boarded, and lodged at the expense of the
charity. It was expressly enjoined by the act of
Parliament that when sufficient funds were accu-
mulated new school buildings should be erected.
It had been the great object of the governors
since their appointment in 1858 to carry out
this provision, but although the estate was large
there were so many calls upon it for pensions to the

officers, &c., of the old college that it seemed almost
impossible to erect new school buildings during the
present generation. Fortunately, two railway com-
panies proposed to intersect the college estate, and
the money paid by the London and Brighton Com-
pany and the London, Chatham, and Dover Com-
pany for the land they required placed the Gover-
nors in a position to build. He believed that the
railways in question would very much increase the
value of the estate, in addition to enabling the
Governors to build the new schools, and that the
college was thirty years in advance of what would
have been its position but for the railways. (Hear.)
In the centre of the edifice would be a large hall
for the general gatherings of the boys and their
friends, and the two schools would be at each wing,
communicating by a cloister with the Central-hall.
Under these circumstances the Governors felt jus-
tified in looking forward to a glorious future for
Dulwich. (Cheers.) They would have a splendid
building in every way suited to its purpose, a
beautiful play ground hardly equalled, and cer-
tainly not excelled, by any in the country—(cheers)
—and a magnificent picture gallery in which the
boys would be trained in the love and appreciation
of works of art. (Cheers.) Above all, each and al
were animated by a good spirit and devotion to the
interests of the colle which was the greatest
element of future success.ge (Cheers.) They could
not, perhaps, echo the sentiments of the poet
who was enraptured with the prospect of Eton
College ; yet he felt persuaded that in these rising
towers which would now crown the sylvan glade
" grateful science" would adore her Alleyne's
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mantdhe a,l,thsotautgehly
heights,,, yet they would be cheered by the great
palace of the people—(cheers)—the temple of art
and science and cheerful enjoyment, which surveyed
them from the heights of Sydeuham. (Cheers.)
And although no Father Thames wandered among
their fields, and though the very Effra was dried up,
still the great spirit of improvement would animate
all their actions, and this, like the river that made
glad the city of God, would fertilise all their endea-
vours and enable them to bless the fruits of a sound
religious education. (Cheers.) The proceedings of
the day were solely connected with the educational
branch of the college, but he was reminded that
many of those present took an interest in the elee-
mosynary branch. (Hear, hear.) That branch bad
received the careful attention of the Governors, and
he was glad to say that with the sanction of the