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The Boys' School.
THE BOYS' SCHOOL .
The annual festival of this institution was celebrated in our noble Hall on Wednesday last ; and if the subscriptions of the evening were not quite so Heavy as on one or two previous occasions , we can only attribute it to the circumstance that less exertions were made than when every nerve was being strained to procure a school-house to aggregate as many as possible of the ! boys under one roof That
object , however , having been accomplished , and the school-house inaugurated and opened , it would appear that the committee of management and stewards of the dinner did not think it necessary to make any special exertions to increase the funds beyond the amount which the good feeling of the Brethren was sure to produce . But
we cannot help thinking that they were in error , and that the jubilee of any institution is an event whicli is at all times well worthy of special regard ; the more particularly when its advent is marked by so important an extension of the principles of the charity as the opening of the new school-house .
The festival of "Wednesday was certainly one of the most agreeable Masonic reunions at which we have ever ( to use the French phrase ) assisted . The speeches were short and to the purpose , —the Brethren were attentive , — -the music excellent , —and the viands and wines were unexceptionable . There was one part of the M . W . Cx . M ' s
speech to whicli we cannot do otherwise than direct attention , viz ., that in whicli he alludes to the number of the sons of country brothers in the institution , and the long list of Provincial Grand Officers and others constantly paraded in the recommendation of the applications of candidates—a comparatively few of whom arc subscribers to the institution . This is a complaint not applicable only to the Boys ' School , but may be equally made by the supporters of the other "Masonic charities ; and whilst we write we have lying on our desk
two cards recommending candidates for the Royal Benevolent Institution for Aged Masons and their "Widows , one recommended by fifteen Brethren ( the majority of whom have Prov . Gr . rank ) , not one of whose names can we trace to the list of subscribers ; and the second bearing thirteen names , eleven provincial and two London , the last two only being subscribers . Now we are satisfied that tin ' s does not arise from any disinclination on the part of our country Brethren to support the charities if their claims were properly brought before them , but from a too prevalent belief that the sums paid into the Fund of Benevolence of Grand Lodge are mainly 2 i 2
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Boys' School.
THE BOYS' SCHOOL .
The annual festival of this institution was celebrated in our noble Hall on Wednesday last ; and if the subscriptions of the evening were not quite so Heavy as on one or two previous occasions , we can only attribute it to the circumstance that less exertions were made than when every nerve was being strained to procure a school-house to aggregate as many as possible of the ! boys under one roof That
object , however , having been accomplished , and the school-house inaugurated and opened , it would appear that the committee of management and stewards of the dinner did not think it necessary to make any special exertions to increase the funds beyond the amount which the good feeling of the Brethren was sure to produce . But
we cannot help thinking that they were in error , and that the jubilee of any institution is an event whicli is at all times well worthy of special regard ; the more particularly when its advent is marked by so important an extension of the principles of the charity as the opening of the new school-house .
The festival of "Wednesday was certainly one of the most agreeable Masonic reunions at which we have ever ( to use the French phrase ) assisted . The speeches were short and to the purpose , —the Brethren were attentive , — -the music excellent , —and the viands and wines were unexceptionable . There was one part of the M . W . Cx . M ' s
speech to whicli we cannot do otherwise than direct attention , viz ., that in whicli he alludes to the number of the sons of country brothers in the institution , and the long list of Provincial Grand Officers and others constantly paraded in the recommendation of the applications of candidates—a comparatively few of whom arc subscribers to the institution . This is a complaint not applicable only to the Boys ' School , but may be equally made by the supporters of the other "Masonic charities ; and whilst we write we have lying on our desk
two cards recommending candidates for the Royal Benevolent Institution for Aged Masons and their "Widows , one recommended by fifteen Brethren ( the majority of whom have Prov . Gr . rank ) , not one of whose names can we trace to the list of subscribers ; and the second bearing thirteen names , eleven provincial and two London , the last two only being subscribers . Now we are satisfied that tin ' s does not arise from any disinclination on the part of our country Brethren to support the charities if their claims were properly brought before them , but from a too prevalent belief that the sums paid into the Fund of Benevolence of Grand Lodge are mainly 2 i 2