The results. of the examination conducted: by the College of Preceptors at the School in June last have recently been received, and will be generally admitted to be highly satisfactory.
One of the more promising candidates had unfortunately to. leave the School previous to the examination, and his place was taken at short notice by another, The latter failed to pass the second class—or. Juniot—examination in one subject, but receives the third-class certificate, Of the remaining eleven candidates three took the first class, or Senior papers; four the second class, or Junior and four optered for the third-class One of the Senior candidates failed to, satisfy the oxomiiners, byt obtained a Junior certificate. Of those entered fog the Jupior examination one failed The third-class candidates all passed. One boy, C. Walker, obtained "honours,"
per cent of the maximum in given subjects were earned by W. H. Edgar, W. W. Conner, and ©. ©. Walker in Drawing, Scripture History, and Geography, respectively. worthy of note that in the supplementary lists, published in the "Educational Times,". of successful candidates examined in foreign centres, W. H. Edgar heads the list of all boys examined outside Great Britain, and A. Lorenzen is placed fourth.
The subjects in which boys satisfied the examiners are Scripture History, English, Geography, History, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Latin, French, Ger. man, Book-keeping, Drawing, and Shorthand. In Latin the set books were Ceesar's Commentaries, Books IV: and V, and in English, Shakespeare's " Julius Ceosar."
When it is remembered that all the boys in the Upper School, doing the regular curriculum, were, without exception, entered for the examination; and that their ages approximate to the ages of candidates for the different classes at and that the dull and backward is not excluded by " system of entrance examinations and " superannuation," it will readily be agreed by all interested in the individual candidates and in the school that they have cause for congratulation.
The results are also an effectual reply to those educational Jeremiahs who so often lamentingly ask, "Can any good thing come out of the East?"
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