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¦»(¦ The Boys' School.
From the above data , I think our readers will agree with me that £ 100 a year is not sufficient for all expenses during a university course . The Bey . J . D . Collis , M . A . late Fellow of Worcester College , Oxford , and now Head Master of Broinsgrove Grammar School , gives £ 725 2 s . 7 d . as
the total cost of his degree of B . A ., Ir including all the items I have named , which he says , is a low sum for Oxford . ( Yide Report of Oxford IJhiyersity Conimi ssioners , 185 & : Evidence , p . 23 . ) With regard to myself , as I ^ a little , but I . doubt whether I could have saved £ 10 a year ,
One more thing is to be considered- In order that a young man who has taken his B . A . degree , or that of S . C . L ., may complete his university course , and be placed in a proper position by taking his degree of M . A ., or LL . B ., ( or B . C . L . ) , one term ' s residence in Oxford is necessary after the B . A . degree , before he can proceed to M . A ., and then there are travelling expenses and foes for the M . A . degree . These latter may perhaps fairly fall on the student himself after he has started in life , but it is most considerate to give him the means of residing this term as soon as he has graduated .
2 . In your correspondent ' s letter , he says , Supposing a boy ' s friends to be able to give some slight assistance , a scholarship of £ 20 a-year would go some way towards it ; and such a scholar as would be judged wnrthy of that assistance , would be pretty sure of gaining other scholarships in his college or in the university . " Now it is a well known fact , that comparatively very few young men go through the University , without some such assistance as a school exhibition , or one from a city company or other source ; but these are not the distinguished men of the place . It is often the case that a
scholar of a college holds also a schooler other exhibition , but as a rule , the scholars of colleges are superior men to the school exhibitioners ; and the boy who , in an examination at his school , is proved to be the cleverest boy of two or three there , and to whom his school exhibition is on that account awarded , by no means turns out the cleverest man , when he finds himself locked into a college hall for three or four days with fifty other candidates with nothing but pen , ink , and paper , six or seven tough papers on history , geography ( ancient and modern ) , prose and verse composition , grammar , Latin and Greek authors , & c .
Most ot the scholars of colleges are the picked men of our large public schools , and most of the university scholars are the picked men of our college scholars . I would not , therefore , have your readers run away with the idea that , Supposing an exhibition in connection with our Boys' School founded , the holder would stand a better chance of university ox college preferment than other scions of small schools ; and I am of opinion that the friends of a boy whose means justified him in taking advantage of the Freemasons' Boys' School would not be able to send him to college with the
assistance of so small a sum as £ 20 a-year . Now , I am far from wishing to persuade the Craft to abandon the idea , but do not let them think of £ 20 a year . To be useful for this purpose , it must be £ 50 or £ 60 at least , ( considering the circumstances of our lewis , ) and though probably not many from our schools contemplate the universities as their sphere of action , yet I think with LL . B ., that the establishment of one exhibition ( of at least the value however that I have named ) , to which others might be added in the course of time , would be a valuable addition to the plan and purposes of the school .
While only one existed , it would of course only be vacant once in four or five years ( I advocate five years myself as the tenure of an exhibition , for reasons which I can explain as being a matter of detail , on a future oc- «
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¦»(¦ The Boys' School.
From the above data , I think our readers will agree with me that £ 100 a year is not sufficient for all expenses during a university course . The Bey . J . D . Collis , M . A . late Fellow of Worcester College , Oxford , and now Head Master of Broinsgrove Grammar School , gives £ 725 2 s . 7 d . as
the total cost of his degree of B . A ., Ir including all the items I have named , which he says , is a low sum for Oxford . ( Yide Report of Oxford IJhiyersity Conimi ssioners , 185 & : Evidence , p . 23 . ) With regard to myself , as I ^ a little , but I . doubt whether I could have saved £ 10 a year ,
One more thing is to be considered- In order that a young man who has taken his B . A . degree , or that of S . C . L ., may complete his university course , and be placed in a proper position by taking his degree of M . A ., or LL . B ., ( or B . C . L . ) , one term ' s residence in Oxford is necessary after the B . A . degree , before he can proceed to M . A ., and then there are travelling expenses and foes for the M . A . degree . These latter may perhaps fairly fall on the student himself after he has started in life , but it is most considerate to give him the means of residing this term as soon as he has graduated .
2 . In your correspondent ' s letter , he says , Supposing a boy ' s friends to be able to give some slight assistance , a scholarship of £ 20 a-year would go some way towards it ; and such a scholar as would be judged wnrthy of that assistance , would be pretty sure of gaining other scholarships in his college or in the university . " Now it is a well known fact , that comparatively very few young men go through the University , without some such assistance as a school exhibition , or one from a city company or other source ; but these are not the distinguished men of the place . It is often the case that a
scholar of a college holds also a schooler other exhibition , but as a rule , the scholars of colleges are superior men to the school exhibitioners ; and the boy who , in an examination at his school , is proved to be the cleverest boy of two or three there , and to whom his school exhibition is on that account awarded , by no means turns out the cleverest man , when he finds himself locked into a college hall for three or four days with fifty other candidates with nothing but pen , ink , and paper , six or seven tough papers on history , geography ( ancient and modern ) , prose and verse composition , grammar , Latin and Greek authors , & c .
Most ot the scholars of colleges are the picked men of our large public schools , and most of the university scholars are the picked men of our college scholars . I would not , therefore , have your readers run away with the idea that , Supposing an exhibition in connection with our Boys' School founded , the holder would stand a better chance of university ox college preferment than other scions of small schools ; and I am of opinion that the friends of a boy whose means justified him in taking advantage of the Freemasons' Boys' School would not be able to send him to college with the
assistance of so small a sum as £ 20 a-year . Now , I am far from wishing to persuade the Craft to abandon the idea , but do not let them think of £ 20 a year . To be useful for this purpose , it must be £ 50 or £ 60 at least , ( considering the circumstances of our lewis , ) and though probably not many from our schools contemplate the universities as their sphere of action , yet I think with LL . B ., that the establishment of one exhibition ( of at least the value however that I have named ) , to which others might be added in the course of time , would be a valuable addition to the plan and purposes of the school .
While only one existed , it would of course only be vacant once in four or five years ( I advocate five years myself as the tenure of an exhibition , for reasons which I can explain as being a matter of detail , on a future oc- «