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    MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS FOB GIRLS. 173 -

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    cannot loyed help A thinking vast number that it draw might -well be from organized nature , and a usefull greater y

    number emp still . are good musicians and good French scholars , —why should not this teaching power be used for the benefit of the public ?

    If some of the ladies who are wearied with study—seeing no point for their efforts—would club together their talentsand make a

    , in sort various of joint ' branches stock comp they any , could some subscribing themselves establish money , some these lessons better

    sort of schools . In , factwe "want an application of the volunteer movement ; but a trained , mistress , always in the school , would be

    absolutel Good schools y necessary for 6 . d . a week will not but Is . a week from 150 pay

    children can be made to pay expenses without , profit . Probably schools charging £ 1 a quarter could be made to pay a profit . the

    It is very desirable that a society should be formed for establishment of such schools in connexion with such an institution as the Queen ' s Collegeand that paid or volunteer teachers

    should procure certificates , and , the schools established might avow themselves in connexion with some well-known and authorized

    academy . Some Journal should also be open to the monthly reports comparisons and opportunities of such b schools y meetings be ( the given of English for teacher the Woman s interchange at exertions stated ' s _Jouknal times and of various . questions for Publicit instance y and of )

    every sort should be afforded for the experiments of these societies of ladies , not only for their own improve-: the ment comparative , but also to advantages give parents of different a fair opportunity schools . These of understanding should alsa

    be of the open wealth to inspection and , charitable at least on should certain likewise fixed days be . drawn The attention to the y

    to imp A correspond ort gain ance of to endowing the effort grammar shoul a cert d schools be ain made numb so by richl er the of y day friends endowed -schools of for education for boys girls . ,

    to raise , the every standard of the mistresses , and to . give them opportunities efficiency , of stead It y is improvement desirable to extend , and some simultaneousl public recognition y all the agencies of their

    . at work for the better education both of teachers and pupils , and nothing would more promote Students it than the who opening not to Members them of of " the the

    Universit Universit y . _" Examinations At Cambrid of there is an examination are every year for student y s who are not ge more than sixteen years of age , and

    another for students who are not more than eighteen years of age . The subjects of examination are English Language , including

    reading French , aloud and & , G c spelling erman The , languages students dictation , , who & arithmeti c , history c , the , geograp mathematics examinations hy , the , natural Latin will , - hilosophy pass

    p receive certificates , . . " After each examination the names of the students who pass honor classes

    with credit will be placed alphabetically in three ,

    Middle Class Schools Fob Girls. 173 -

    MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS FOB GIRLS . 173 -

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 173, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/29/