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The terms payable for passes are very judicious and quite sufficient for present purposes.
3. I note that Mr Eitel has considerably qualified his objection to giving a fourth of the Grant to the Latter. I see also paragraph 11 of Annual Report on Education for [1982]. This is a stimulus which can’t well be dispensed with in the present state of Education here. No doubt the masters do try to make the most of their opportunities, but it would be a serious matter if they were allowed to lapse into their former listlessness. I think the “spirit” is calculated to convey exaggerated notions of the position of affairs.
At the same time, by whatever name it may be called it has worked elsewhere, and the proper course with regard to it would seem to me to make the public Trust which the circumstances demand, and not abandon a useful Educational instrument, because it is possible to take advantage of it.