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The Boys School.
THE BOYS SCHOOL .
No . XIV .-APRIL 6 , 1859 .
THE report of tlie proceedings at the anniversary festival of this institution , which we publish in another part of to-day's Magazine , will be read by the brethren with mingled feelings of pain and pleasure ; with pleasure , that the Craft should so nobly have responded to the call made upon them as to add nearly £ 2000 to the funds of the instituutterl
tion * ancl pain , to find the course of education pursued so y condcmned as it is in the report of the Grand Chaplain , Bro . the Rev . A . R . Ward , who kindly acted as examiner , and who says : " Some of the boys acquitted themselves very well indeed , especially Crichton and Guanziroli some of the othershoweververy indifferently . The
, , subject in which there was the greatest deficiency was arithmetic * this was badly done by all , several of the boys not answering or trying to answer one single question . The spelling also was generally bad . " We would , before more particularly alluding to the report of our
reverend brother , congratulate the stewards on the success of their arrangements for the accommodation ofthe guests at the festival , by which the utmost order was maintained throughout the proceedings * and we would express the obligation ofthe Craft to the Deputy Grand Master for the dignity and courtesy with which he presided on the reward to consist
occasion , being assured that his Lordship felt his best in the announcement that the subscriptions of the evening amounted to the handsome sum of £ 1 , 850 , with three lists to come in . Of this sum we were gratified to notice that upwards of £ 300 came from the province of West Yorkshire , a noble example to the brethren the efforts of
of the other provinces , and a convincing proof that Bros . Symonds and Lyall have not been without beneficial results . Reverting to the report of our reverend Bro . Ward , we must say that we can scarcely agree with him " that an assistant master should be appointed as soon as possible at Lordship Lodge" —believing that one master competent to his duties should be sufficient , with the assistance VOL . VI , 2 S
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Boys School.
THE BOYS SCHOOL .
No . XIV .-APRIL 6 , 1859 .
THE report of tlie proceedings at the anniversary festival of this institution , which we publish in another part of to-day's Magazine , will be read by the brethren with mingled feelings of pain and pleasure ; with pleasure , that the Craft should so nobly have responded to the call made upon them as to add nearly £ 2000 to the funds of the instituutterl
tion * ancl pain , to find the course of education pursued so y condcmned as it is in the report of the Grand Chaplain , Bro . the Rev . A . R . Ward , who kindly acted as examiner , and who says : " Some of the boys acquitted themselves very well indeed , especially Crichton and Guanziroli some of the othershoweververy indifferently . The
, , subject in which there was the greatest deficiency was arithmetic * this was badly done by all , several of the boys not answering or trying to answer one single question . The spelling also was generally bad . " We would , before more particularly alluding to the report of our
reverend brother , congratulate the stewards on the success of their arrangements for the accommodation ofthe guests at the festival , by which the utmost order was maintained throughout the proceedings * and we would express the obligation ofthe Craft to the Deputy Grand Master for the dignity and courtesy with which he presided on the reward to consist
occasion , being assured that his Lordship felt his best in the announcement that the subscriptions of the evening amounted to the handsome sum of £ 1 , 850 , with three lists to come in . Of this sum we were gratified to notice that upwards of £ 300 came from the province of West Yorkshire , a noble example to the brethren the efforts of
of the other provinces , and a convincing proof that Bros . Symonds and Lyall have not been without beneficial results . Reverting to the report of our reverend Bro . Ward , we must say that we can scarcely agree with him " that an assistant master should be appointed as soon as possible at Lordship Lodge" —believing that one master competent to his duties should be sufficient , with the assistance VOL . VI , 2 S