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  Item Reference: KCLCAL-1851-1852-29

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annual report 1851 27 more to record their high sense of the admirable manner in which the School as hitherto constituted has been con ducted under the able and conscientious superintendence of Dr Major the Head Master and of the Assistant Masters The high estimation with which the School is regarded and the distinctions which its Pupils have attained in the Universities and elsewhere justify the belief that with regard to Classics Mathematics and the Modern languages as well as the highest study of all that of Divinity this branch of King's College has more than realized the highest expectations of its founders But without in any way derogating from the high cha- racter of the School experience has suggested certain im- provements rather in the way of addition than of change which will render it still more effective instrument of sound and religious education to the community at large That there was some desideratum in the original plan of instruction was indicated from an early period by the fact that several boys in the School had been from time to time exempted at the urgent request of their parents from the duty of learning Greek whilst other boys were allowed similar indulgence with respect to Latin At the close of the Michaelmas Term the number of these boys known respec- tively under the name of Latin boys and English boys dis- tributed through different classes amounted to sixty It was evident that the parents of such boys felt so much Confidence in the general system and in the character of the boys with whom their sons were to associate that they were content for the sake of these advantages to forego large portion of the instruction which was the main feature of the system But while this confidence was highly gratifying in itself it was no less evident that the exemption involved great anomaly and was fraught with much practical incon- venience Amongst the evils immediately resulting may be named the necessity for the Classes being broken up the preca- rious employment of such Pupils during the hours in which their companions learnt Latin or Greek in the same room the diversion of the Master's time and attention from the
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