the Editor of the "Nonta-Cursa Dany News."
Sin,—T note that in the report of the St. Andrew's Society. the Committee remarked "that the standard of examination reached Ly Scatch pupils was formerly not suc sas could he desired.
fo me, a boy who does not know the Jexact conditions attached t" the Scotch prize, and she believes that it is limited to Scuteh children, such a result was only to be expected. It might often happen that 4 this handsome prize would fall to the least assiduous and most backward boy in the form, all others being of a different nationality. If the aim of the Scotch Committee was to encourage jealousy and racial prejudice in a school, it may have hope of Success; but if ft was to promote assiduity and emulation, it took, I think, a very Irish method to attain its' object," and I wish thet the Committee could hear the opinions expressed by the pupils of other nationalities about it. Ihave heard one Scotch boy own it was an unfair competition.
As well might the Jamieson prize have been limited to the offspring of members of the Customs -rvice.
The school pupils hop? yet to hear that the educational committee have taken the question of prizes into consideration, and that it it cannot see its way clear to refuse to accept prizes to which such unsatisfactory conditions are attached, it will at least endeavour to obtain similar ones for children of other nationalities.
Tam, ete, A Posutv Sonoor, Boy.
24th October.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.