350 doubt that he will continue
to do everything possible to keep Victoria College in its proper place as
School a model Secondary
and in cending to Gor, ask for the naval annual report on the College which has not Come home?
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attention to
Thave the honon to invite zour. paragraph 12 of the last Educational Report fr
Story King,
in which the Inspector Bchools upon the condition Pictoria Collye and criticises the results of the education it afprds, by compare it candidates and then want ofsreccess, with the candidate of other schools in the Colony competing for O the fovernment Scholarship & Belitis Prijes
Medals Exford Local Exammations.
The whole tone of the paragraph, with its repeated allusions to the cost of the staff and matériel of the. Bollege, and several advantages it is supposed to possers over other schools, has a manifest tendency (though this is perhaps not the object of the paragraph, traire in the minds of the public, who read the Local Tapiro, grave double as to the solid worth of the education imparted at the Collye; for mich
doubts will not be dissipated by the short sentence "Jam aware that the frejoins defects almost
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disappear from right, when contrasted with the
excellent results obtained at the last examination
of the follge in most of the higher subjects....
"Showing solid and effective teaching in the
majority of the Classs."
I propose to offer, in detail, criticiom of the varian statements made in this paragraph, as Idesire that a crony impression should not be left on the mind of his Zadship, the Secretary of state frithe (donia
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