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The Masonic Mirror.
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THE GIBLB' SCHOOL . The quarterly general court of the subscribers to this school was held at the offices on . Thursday ) April 8 th . Bro . Benjamm Bond Cabbel ^ by Bros . J . Hervey , Boberts , Young , W . Gray Clarke , Rev . W . Lyall , Patten , Bpencer , G . Biggs , Barnes , Binckes , Paas , Bobinson , Symonds , TJdall , Davis , BarretL & C . & C , " x ''*' :, - /;
'Theininutes of the last court and various committees haying been read , cheques were ordered to be signed for £ 390 . Is ., the expehditure of the past quarter . Three children had died during the quarter , two in the school and one at home with her friends ; and it was remarkable that the deaths of the two in the school arose from the same cause , a flow of serum to the heart . Bro . Cabbell , as chairman and treasurer , read a report that , pursuant to the resolution ef the general court of the 14 th January , Messrs . "Williams , Deacon ,
and Co ., had purchased , on the 21 st January , £ 28 . 185 . 7 « . reduced three per cent , consols , in the names of the trustees of the building fund , thus making the amount of stock so purchased £ 2 , 200 . This report having been received , Bro . Binckes brought up a report from a sub-committee appointed on the 28 th of January , to inquire into the propriety of enlarging the course of education in the school . The committee , after a few opening remarks , say ;—
" The inquiry We were commissioned to undertake is comprised under the four following heads i— ¦ " 1 . The system , of education adopted in similar institutions . " 2 . The nature of the household arrangements pursued therein . " 3 . The expense and modes of instruction in French and music . " 4 . The nature of the duties , and the kind of employment undertaken by children who have left this institution during the last ten years . " 1 . The system of education adopted in similar institutions .
" With the object not only of placing the governor and subscribers in possession of the facts as regards the subjects embraced in the system of education adopted in other similar establishments , but of affording them the means of instituting a fair comparison as to the respective advantages , we append a tabulated statement of the branches of study in the Freemasons * Grids' School , as received from Miss Souter , the schoolmistress , and in other schools , as communicated by the principals and secretaries with whom we have been in correspondence .
"Freemasons' Girls' School . —Scripture , church catechism , reading , writing , arithmetic , geography , grammar , English history , ancient history ( to 1 st class ) , needlework , domestic duties . " Royal Asylum of St . Ann ' s Society . —All subjects connected with an English education , sufficient to enable them to pass the government inspector ' s examination for a pupil teacher for the first year—needlework , French and drawing ( to 1 st class ) . Music is an extra paid for by parents or friends of those who learn .
" Commercial Travellers ' . —Scripture history , geography , English history , grammar and analysis of sentences , arithmetic , useful general knowledge , needlework , French to the two upper classes , the school being divided into three classes . " London Orphan Asylum , Clapton . —Beading , writing , arithmetic , history , geography , chronology , grammar , composition , drill , needlewoik , household duties ^ music . French .
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The Masonic Mirror.
THE 7 ^ ^^ # ^^ : "llvO : " , " . - ^ -X ^^ t ' <> - 9 Et . ¦
THE GIBLB' SCHOOL . The quarterly general court of the subscribers to this school was held at the offices on . Thursday ) April 8 th . Bro . Benjamm Bond Cabbel ^ by Bros . J . Hervey , Boberts , Young , W . Gray Clarke , Rev . W . Lyall , Patten , Bpencer , G . Biggs , Barnes , Binckes , Paas , Bobinson , Symonds , TJdall , Davis , BarretL & C . & C , " x ''*' :, - /;
'Theininutes of the last court and various committees haying been read , cheques were ordered to be signed for £ 390 . Is ., the expehditure of the past quarter . Three children had died during the quarter , two in the school and one at home with her friends ; and it was remarkable that the deaths of the two in the school arose from the same cause , a flow of serum to the heart . Bro . Cabbell , as chairman and treasurer , read a report that , pursuant to the resolution ef the general court of the 14 th January , Messrs . "Williams , Deacon ,
and Co ., had purchased , on the 21 st January , £ 28 . 185 . 7 « . reduced three per cent , consols , in the names of the trustees of the building fund , thus making the amount of stock so purchased £ 2 , 200 . This report having been received , Bro . Binckes brought up a report from a sub-committee appointed on the 28 th of January , to inquire into the propriety of enlarging the course of education in the school . The committee , after a few opening remarks , say ;—
" The inquiry We were commissioned to undertake is comprised under the four following heads i— ¦ " 1 . The system , of education adopted in similar institutions . " 2 . The nature of the household arrangements pursued therein . " 3 . The expense and modes of instruction in French and music . " 4 . The nature of the duties , and the kind of employment undertaken by children who have left this institution during the last ten years . " 1 . The system of education adopted in similar institutions .
" With the object not only of placing the governor and subscribers in possession of the facts as regards the subjects embraced in the system of education adopted in other similar establishments , but of affording them the means of instituting a fair comparison as to the respective advantages , we append a tabulated statement of the branches of study in the Freemasons * Grids' School , as received from Miss Souter , the schoolmistress , and in other schools , as communicated by the principals and secretaries with whom we have been in correspondence .
"Freemasons' Girls' School . —Scripture , church catechism , reading , writing , arithmetic , geography , grammar , English history , ancient history ( to 1 st class ) , needlework , domestic duties . " Royal Asylum of St . Ann ' s Society . —All subjects connected with an English education , sufficient to enable them to pass the government inspector ' s examination for a pupil teacher for the first year—needlework , French and drawing ( to 1 st class ) . Music is an extra paid for by parents or friends of those who learn .
" Commercial Travellers ' . —Scripture history , geography , English history , grammar and analysis of sentences , arithmetic , useful general knowledge , needlework , French to the two upper classes , the school being divided into three classes . " London Orphan Asylum , Clapton . —Beading , writing , arithmetic , history , geography , chronology , grammar , composition , drill , needlewoik , household duties ^ music . French .