Calendar: 1869-1870 Page 48

43 ANNUAL REPORT and efficiency of the School are gradually rising and the Mid- summer and Terminal Examinations have been thoroughly satisfactory in their results The attention of the Principal and the Head Master is anxiously directed to all that may tend to maintain and accelerate the steady advance which the School is now making and the Principal with view to better acquaintance with the senior boys and through them with the working of the School has voluntarily undertaken with the cordial approbation of the Head Master to give lesson weekly on some theological subject to the Upper Sixth Forms in Divisions and The Lord Bishop of Loudon has been good enough again to hold Confirmation in the Chapel at which ten students of the College and forty-seven boys of the School were presented by the Principal and Head Master and all received their first Communion at the Chapel on Palm Sunday The Head Master reports that the alteration in the hour of opening School from o'clock to 30 alluded to in the last Report continues to work very effectually towards securing the attendance of all the boys and the new arrange- ment of the hours of work introduced during the last eighteen months is equally satisfactory He is also able to speak very highly of the working of the new Department of the "Lower School under the Rev George Rust Mr Rust has thrown himself with peculiar energy and zeal into the superintendence of the various Classes placed under him and the boys are more carefully grounded and better prepared than before for removal to the higher Divisions He adds It is with deep sense of the loss which the School has sustained that advert to the resignation of our late German Master Dr AVintzer after many years of laborious and successful work In his successor however Dr Schottky we have the promise of no less energy and the assurance that under his guidance the state of the German Classes will be as satisfactory as heretofore Since the last Report the following distinctions have been gained by boys belonging to the School