An esteemed correspondent ventures to question the accuracy of the analogy drawn by this journal be-{ween an English grammar school and the Cathedral School. He is. supported in the effort by certain statements which he evidently considers to be based on fact. There mistaken, Just as he does not seem ta be very sure of his ground in discussing the English "secondary school" fof which it"may be said. that. all sfammar, as all. public schools, are {cchnicaliy secondary schools, but all, secondary schools are not grammar schools; similarly some public schools sre actually grammar schools foundation but all grammar schools sare not public schools. To return to' his statement "in relation to the Cathedral School. He says it is Nery definitely afiiated Eathearat and the Gmurch of Eaetand, Seimuch. 30° that T understand, She ing "in' "ihe Cathe Feceive tuition at freshly reduced fee This is not specifically correct.
The Lester Trustees are in a majority. against the Cathedral 'Trustees in the management of the School. 'There are twenty boys who receive chi scholarships at the Cathedral pense, a few of these scholarships Smounting 10 a complete payment of the school fees in' respect of the. holders. The association with the Cathedral is otherwise limited to the obligation whereby the School pays $12,000 3. year as rent for its present buildings. The suggestion that. the School "aggressively champions" the "claims of a. particular religious sect unfounded, as is appositely pointed ut by another correspondent to-day. Confirming that latter correspondent's comment it may be added that when it's suggested that. the Cathedral School is "strictly selective as to who admitted as a pupil" and that the selection ison the basis of the. Parents" religious views, the plain Snswer is that, as stated in the leading "article yesterday in citing the frammer school analogy to. which fabjection is now taken, the sons of other Protestants "Roman Catholics and Jews, are just as eligible for enrolment as the sons of members of the Church of England. So the grammar school analogy is definitely accurate.
fact et it be mentioned that. the example on which that editorial com ment was based was that of a small grammar. school where, by an arrangement dating from Queen Elizabeth's time, the headmaster had the right to hela' a small country living in the neighbourhood, the Chairman of the: Board of Governors was " leading Congregational elder, another Gov enor was the most prominent Roman Catholic layman in the town—this In part of England Where the demareation between Catholics and Protestants was specially sharp—and the pupils included at Yeast one boy of Jewish parentage. Thi thing to prevent a si tolerance obtaining at the Cathedral School, so whatever objections may be raised to the Fund which is being organized they cannot be securely founded on the contention that the school ig exclusively sectarian in character. Indeed, as ig also noted In the other letter to which reference has been made, one critic. of the Cathedral School actually cites admittedly sectarian outport school 35 deserving of preferential. treatment, Whither do these unsubstantial eriti= isms lead? Surely not to the better equipment of Shanghai boys for th battle of life. The sponsors of the Appeal have put forward an honest. ubiies-spirited invitation. to the. British community to put its shoulder the wheel in financially: assist the Cathedral School, s" the only British-controlled school. for British boys, to assume the full responsibilities of an institution of the same Kind England. If the Cathedral School disappeared what could take its place? Would there be general support for 1 school organized! to meet. the real Jor imaginary objections brought for~ Ward so lightly? There would not be. For one argument now adduced to advocate "non-contribution "to the Coronation "Fund there would be 'a thousand others which would effectively stile such a scheme in. its birth, Cannot. the community show its solidarity one simple issue: the need for providing a decent educa tion for its boys? All else is irrelewant.
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