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"recommend the adoption of such a scheme, as it is opposed to
fundamental educational principles recognised throughout the
World. The Examiners seem to overlook the fact that at Oxford
and Cambridge Universities, a very wide and deep gulf yawns
between the attainments of men who barely scrape through a
Pass Examination, and those who obtain the highest Honours,
yet all get the same degree of B.A., and I have never heard
it suggested to abolish the Pass degree, or to send down men
incapable of taking Honours".
I consider that it is decidedly in the
interest of the College that none but intelligent and industrious boys should leave it holding a Certificate of having
been in its highest class. In the face of the Examiners' Report
I am suggesting to the Head Master the desirability of requiring as
a qualification for promotion in the Upper School a greater
percentage of marks at the term examinations than the present
minimum.
I desire to add to the foregoing remarks
8.
on the Examiners' Report that my inspection of the College on
the 3rd October convinced me that it is a thoroughly well
conducted establishment of great value to the boys who receive
their education in it and also of value to the Colony.
9.
According to the Estimates for 1905 the
Colony will contribute in that year towards the support of
the College the considerable sum of $38,894 made up as follows:-
Expenditure
Personal Emoluments.... Other Charges.....
$66,314 $2,380
(Carried forward) $68,694