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The Boys School.
education so that as the industrial training was lately pronounced by the committee who made inquiries into the subject to be equal to that of any similar establishment , we need not now fear of pointing to the Freemasons' Girls School and taking pride in its education and management . There is one point , however , in which we should
wish to see an improvement , and . that is in the selection of the assistants to the schoolmistress . We speak in no disparagement of the abilities of Miss Kernot , for we know not what they are ; but when we are told she was formerly a pupil in the school—a just matter of congratulation if she be properly qualified for her office—we should be p leased to hear that steps had been taken to enable her to obtain the
government certificate of merit , without which , in the present day , no teacher should be elected to a public school . We would make it an object of ambition for girls on leaving our school to be sent for two or three years to a government training school to be educated as governesses , and if needed , the Institution should bear the expenses of those who by their talents and conduct could gain so high a prize .
Masonic Missions.
MASONIC MISSIONS .
Bro . Henry Hadley , Secretary of No . 55 , is properly zealous for the honour of his Province , and lie sends us a letter with the view of correcting our remarks at page 441 . He says that we have onl y given Nottinghamshire the credit of possessing three Lodges , whereas it has four . What we said was , that Nottinghamshire was one of the shires possessing onl y three Lodgo towns , our object being to
illustrate the topographical distribution of Masonry . Our brother will find that in the list of towns containing Lodges , Nottingham is correctly returned as having three Lodges , and in so far the town takes a very fair rank , but the shire stands in a very different situation , for we find we were wrong after all ( though as we
acted on the last official return , the calendar , we could not know it ) , in that we jilaced Nottinghamshire too high instead of too low . This we learn from Bro . Hadley ' s letter . Guided by the calendar we placed Nottinghamshire as a shire having three towns possessing Lodges , and therefore ranking with Herefordshire , Oxfordshire , ancl Berkshire .
We now find that Nottinghamshire is to be placed among the shires having only two Loclge towns , and to be ranked with Bedfordshire , Leicestershire , and Monmouthshire ; for as the warrant of the Marquis
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The Boys School.
education so that as the industrial training was lately pronounced by the committee who made inquiries into the subject to be equal to that of any similar establishment , we need not now fear of pointing to the Freemasons' Girls School and taking pride in its education and management . There is one point , however , in which we should
wish to see an improvement , and . that is in the selection of the assistants to the schoolmistress . We speak in no disparagement of the abilities of Miss Kernot , for we know not what they are ; but when we are told she was formerly a pupil in the school—a just matter of congratulation if she be properly qualified for her office—we should be p leased to hear that steps had been taken to enable her to obtain the
government certificate of merit , without which , in the present day , no teacher should be elected to a public school . We would make it an object of ambition for girls on leaving our school to be sent for two or three years to a government training school to be educated as governesses , and if needed , the Institution should bear the expenses of those who by their talents and conduct could gain so high a prize .
Masonic Missions.
MASONIC MISSIONS .
Bro . Henry Hadley , Secretary of No . 55 , is properly zealous for the honour of his Province , and lie sends us a letter with the view of correcting our remarks at page 441 . He says that we have onl y given Nottinghamshire the credit of possessing three Lodges , whereas it has four . What we said was , that Nottinghamshire was one of the shires possessing onl y three Lodgo towns , our object being to
illustrate the topographical distribution of Masonry . Our brother will find that in the list of towns containing Lodges , Nottingham is correctly returned as having three Lodges , and in so far the town takes a very fair rank , but the shire stands in a very different situation , for we find we were wrong after all ( though as we
acted on the last official return , the calendar , we could not know it ) , in that we jilaced Nottinghamshire too high instead of too low . This we learn from Bro . Hadley ' s letter . Guided by the calendar we placed Nottinghamshire as a shire having three towns possessing Lodges , and therefore ranking with Herefordshire , Oxfordshire , ancl Berkshire .
We now find that Nottinghamshire is to be placed among the shires having only two Loclge towns , and to be ranked with Bedfordshire , Leicestershire , and Monmouthshire ; for as the warrant of the Marquis