A fee is imposed on the collection of fees by the clerks. At the close of my examination, I noticed signs of a coming change in the system of collecting the fees. But I submit that no effective audit is possible until an authoritative daily Attendance Register, kept by each Master, who should have no connection whatever with the collection of fees, is made the basis of the whole account.
12. Discipline. I have observed above that I frequently found Masters engaged, to the neglect of order in their classes, with extraneous work which ought to have been done before or after school hours. I have also noticed that one Master, who acts also as clerk, was several times during every lesson either called away for a short time on office duty or interrupted by messages from the office, to the manifest destruction of the good order of his class. Likewise, also, the Second Master, who is in charge of the preparatory school, has so many special duties away from his classrooms that his classes are under the most unfavourable conditions as to preservation of order. Under these circumstances, I am not surprised to find that the discipline of the whole College can be upheld only by a most extraordinary use of corporal punishment, resorted to with abnormal frequency. I append to this Report a list of the corporal punishments administered by the Headmaster in 1892 and 1893. It will be seen from this list that from January 1892 to July 1893, 49 floggings have been administered in addition to the imposition of fines amounting in the aggregate to $55.13, both forms of punishment having been resorted to in addition to the numberless impositions of home work and detentions in class.