The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-10-08

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But what does st. Paul's stand for in
the educational world? The question is
not easy to answer In sentence. To
the outside world St PauPs stands as
the most successful scholarship winning
school of modern times. Compared with
other public schools. whether residen-
tial schools like Eton or Winchester, or
day schools like Merchant Taylors or
the City of London school. the results
achieved by st. Paul's are little short Of
astounding.
For instance, in 1902, four open schol-
arships at Oxford, fourteen at Cam
bridge, eighteen in all, and all direct
from school. To this list must be added
for the year three fellowships gained
by old Paulines at their respective col
leges, four university scholarships, four
college scholarships, one university
prize, eleven first classes in classics, one
in mathematics and four in natural sci
ence, or sixteen first classes gained dur
ing the year. ~
Nor is the school less seccessful in
winning scholarships at the hospitals or
in passing boys into the army or civil
attained civil appointments and four
teen passed into Sandhurst or Wool
witch, the greater part Of the latter di-
rect from school.
A list like this must strike fear to the
heart of the ordinary head master. In
DR.. Walkers own words "the day
schools are honor schools and the
boarding schools are pass schools" St
Pauls certainly justifies the mot. To
those who know the personality of the
famous head master and his methods
the explanation of these Pauline sue
cesses is simple. He himself does not
teach, but somehow, no one quite knows
how, he has an intimate knowledge OF
the capacities and progress of every boy
in the school. which is to the boy. as
well as to his form master, little short
of mystifying. You've done wonders.
he said on one occasion, reviewing the
last years work with a captain of the
school, then about to leave, and ther
Enthusiastically added, "And so has
your younger brother"-an insignificant
shrimp in the lower third, who had
been only one term in the school, an6
managed somehow to fiuke French
prize.
| It is often charged against st. Paul's
that, considering their successes il
winning scholarships and first classes
Paulines do very little in after life
that they are driven too fast at first
their energies are pumped out" Prob
ably truer way to put it is that man!
boy of mediocre ability, when under
the immediate stimulus of the excep
tional intellectual atmosphere of st
Paul's, attains success beyond his form
Later in life, when this stimulus /!
withdrawn, he falls back into his nor
NAL place. DR.. Walker adds another
point, and undoubtedly a true one, tina
it is becoming harder every day II
attain the biggest successes that lif'
has to offer without influence" and
influence his boys very often do not pos
sess.
i. OF the general curriculum but littl'
has been said. Though the school hai
strong science and modern side mum
bering some 220. and most successful
army class numbering about eighty
| every boy must do classics UP to four
teen, and $50 continue the classica
course through the school. There is NJ
direct preparation for business. ST
Paul's may bescalIed the most classica
I of the schools Of the modern type
/ There can be no doubt Of the intellectu
lal pressure exerted and vitality attain
i ed at st. Pauls; with a little more o
! the traditions and open airness'' of tn
ordinary English public school st. Paul
would go far to realize the ideal in Eng
4 fish education.