The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1888-08-04 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SOW/M.—The collisions between trains. There were ''' 0 suicides, atnnual "breaking-up" and distribution of certificates col i and prizes at the Commercial School, Ramsden-street, and 203 trespassers were killed. I took place on Thursday afternoon, in the presence of o I, the parents and friends of the pupils. The prizes,. 1 which Were sufficiently numerous to encourage every The proceedings at the last Council meeting gave i, boy to exertion, were distributed by the Rev. A. J. W. the public an indication of the scheme which has 'I Crosse' The Principal (Mr Speight) read the list of , successes which had been gained during the past been for some time in contemplation by the Corn- year, viz.: —Three certificates in the Cambridge Local mittee of the School crf Science and Art, and which '. tEiglinaatuiodnis,notnbee jlohliaergmeacoefutpraeleePprtoelri7inaraymcineral they-felt somewhat sanguine might 'not only pro- ': tion three second class certificates and six third class. i The Rev. A. ,1. W. Crosse addressed the boys, and vide for Barrow an institution such as no town cif t , urged upou tl-em the desirability of giving their closest its size and importance should be without, but also 1 study to whatever they undertook, and to persevere until success crowned their labours. He then diatribe the-means of solving -the financialerabarrassment j buted the prires as follows:—Certificates and prize's. in which the existing school appeared to be threat- .I gained at the Cambridge Local Examination Decem-0 bee 1887, C flappold, J Westwood, and T lieWassaU. ened. The scheme proposed is to establish a high 1 Prizes gained at the College of Preceptors' Examineschool for boys and girls, and from the synopsis of ',, tion June, tess, T H Wassail, a 2s ; d,W Dubie, 't -£1 is; II IL Town, Ll Is; sue. C E Curzon, lOs 6d. the eohool course for both departments, which will 1 School Prises :—English : Class VI, upper, T IL be found in another column, there would seem little '! Wassail .and J W Dobie; Class VI, lower, C B to cavil at the designation of the proposed in- i Curzon and 4 T Heushaw.: Class V, upper. J 0 room i Styles; Class V, lower, G Happold; Claw IV, A. . 1.1 Carruthers; Class 111, E Carruthers. Mathematics stitution, and it is to be hoped that to admirable '"' : ' i Class VI, upper, J Westwood ; Class VI, lower, C E scheme may enlist a -sufficient sharecf public sym- i Curzon and J T Henshaw : Class V, upper, A 1,4 pathy and support to be carried to a practical issue. 1 Tebay. Arithmetic: Class .V, lower, G Happold ; : Class IV, G-E Ward • Class.lll., T M Postlethwaite. We observe that a public mer.ing to consider the ' Latin: Set 111, 1' ' H Wassail and J W Donie ; Set scheme generally is convened for Wednesday even. II A WlEl'lllE+ll ; Set LJ C Styles and 11 J Phillips. French: Set TH, T H Wassail and J Weetwood ; ing in the School of Art, and no doubt it will be in.. Set 11, C E Curzon; Set I, J C Styles,itad II J Phillips. Chemistry: Class VI, upper, J W Dobie. ..fittentifilly attended. ,i Drawing: Class VI, upper, T If Wassail; Class VI, ----........ i lower, J T Renshaw ; Class V, upper, W G Dawson; Class V. lower, F E Nichells , Class IV, B S , Dawson.