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6.
Your Lordship will observe that
the Independent Examiners considered that the work of the
school showed improvement compared with last year and that
the Head Master is also satisfied with the year's progress.
As regards the various courses of study the results of the
Mid-Summer Independent Examination in English subjects
undoubtedly the most important part of the curriculum
were not uniformly satisfactory; the Head Master, however
reports improvement in these subjects during the year.
There has been an increase in the interest taken in
Geography and I was well pleased with the sketch maps which
were drawn by several of the classes on the occasion of my
inspection. The difference of opinion, referred to in my
7029 Despatch No. 39 of the 16th. February, 1905, between the
Cr
Inspector of Schools and the other Independent Examiners
on the one hand and the Head Master on the other, on
Universal versus English History as a subject of instruct-
-ion at the College still exists; I do not propose to take
steps to change the course there, based largely on the
requirements of the Oxford Local Examinations, at any rate
at present. I have dealt with the results of Hygiene
Instruction in the Report which was submitted to Your
Lordship