Report of the commissioners, Volumes 16-17 |
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appointed arithmetic Authors read Average Age Average Time given boarders Cambridge capitation fees charity Church Church Langton Church of England Court of Chancery Day Scholars DIGEST OF INFORMATION East Retford ended Christmas 1864 ENDOWED GRAMMAR SCHOOLS Euclid examination Exercises per Week Farmer feoffees free grammar school French Geography girls governors Greek Half-year ended Christmas Half-year of 1864 head master head master's house Heighington income labourers land Latin learning each Subject Lessons per Week Letters Patent lower school Lowest Class Market Bosworth Market Rasen Mast mathematics metic miles National school Non-classical Number of Boys Number of Exercises Number of Lessons Oakham parish precise Quantity Profession or Occupa Quantity of Authors read or Text scheme School course School in Second Second Class second master Sleaford Snareston South Leverton Spilsby Stoke Golding teach Text Books tion of Parent town Trstees Tuxford upper school usher vicar Walkeringham Washingborough Week given writing
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Page 109 - good authors, such as have the very Roman eloquence, joined with wisdom, specially Christian authors, that wrote their wisdom with clean and chaste Latin, either in verse or in prose,
Page 9 - with specimen objects and experiments shown by the master or lecturer; (d) with specimen objects handled and experiments worked by the boys themselves? 34. Are the following subjects taught, and in what way— (a) geometrical drawing; (6) perspective; (c) freehand drawing from the flat; (d) freehand drawing from models ; (e) colouring
Page ii - What difficulties, if any, do you find in the discharge of your duty? 82. Would it, in your opinion, be an advantage or otherwise if your School were examined annually and publicly reported on by independent examiners ? 83. If such examiners are desirable, how should they be appointed ? PRINTED QUESTIONS addressed to the GOVERNORS of PROPRIETARY SCHOOLS for, BOYS.
Page ii - Are the seats provided with backs ? GENERAL QUESTIONS. 79. What subjects of instruction do you believe to be best fitted for the education of the majority of your scholars? 80. What subjects of instruction do you believe to be preferred by the parents
Page 109 - set out by King Henry VIII., or some other, if any can be better to the purpose, to induce children more speedily to Latin speech ; and then
Page ii - Is there any rule that a teacher should be always present ? 73. Do any of the teachers join in the games ? 74. Is there a gymnasium ? 75. Are callisthenics taught as a part of the School system? 76. Are there any school bounds beyond the school precincts, or are the
Page 12 - 52. Is the Head Master supreme over the discipline ? or, if not, who can interfere with him ? 53. What punishments are in use ? and for what offences are they inflicted' 54. If corporal punishment is in use, is it inflicted publicly or privately? 55. What punishments, if any, can be inflicted by the Head Master only? 56. What punishments, if any, can
Page 12 - for Scholarships at the Universities, and for the Civil, Military, and East India Services ? 42 Is the Head Master supreme over the instruction, or who can interfere with him ? 43. la the School connected with any, and if so, with what