CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12] — Page 107

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What you was teachers of English, offer to your boys is laboriously pumped up from the stagnant port of you. "Your recollections of what once learned long ago does not flow out from the running stream of daily study of English literature. In this I need not suggest case and remedies. Let it be once acknowledged that all specifically English lessons ought to be given by Englishmen, there will be no difficulties and expense involved in effecting the corresponding reform in the organisation of the School.

What remains to be said, I wish to address so far as possible to all of you without distinction of aid of individuals or classes of masters.

VII. I allude first to the subject of Want of ...ness and Disuse of ... 106 playground, subject of organisation, so far as it concerns you. To begin with matters of cleanliness and order, I have found the staircases, and also with one or two exceptions the classrooms in a neat condition but unventilated. But the filthy condition of parts of the boys' latrine, the dilapidated and useless condition of the lavatory, the black coal-heavers' daubs on most of the doors, the disgraceful condition of some of the blackboards, the accumulation of years' deposits of dust in globes and on the brackets of the chandeliers, the fact that throughout the school the boys are allowed to hold pen or pencils in any way they like, and that they write...

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What you was teachers of English, offer to your boys is laboriously pumped up from the stagnant port of you. "Your recollections of what once learned long ago does not flow out from the running stream of daily study of English literature. In this I need not suggest case and remedies. Let it be once acknowledged that all specifically English lessons ought to be given by Englishmen, there will be no difficulties and expense involved in effecting the corresponding reform in the organisation of the School.What remains to be said, I wish to address so far as possible to all of you without distinction of aid of individuals or classes of masters.VII. I allude first to the subject of Want of ...ness and Disuse of ... 106 playground, subject of organisation, so far as it concerns you. To begin with matters of cleanliness and order, I have found the staircases, and also with one or two exceptions the classrooms in a neat condition but unventilated. But the filthy condition of parts of the boys' latrine, the dilapidated and useless condition of the lavatory, the black coal-heavers' daubs on most of the doors, the disgraceful condition of some of the blackboards, the accumulation of years' deposits of dust in globes and on the brackets of the chandeliers, the fact that throughout the school the boys are allowed to hold pen or pencils in any way they like, and that they write...
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you. To begin with matters of cleanliness and order, I have found the staircases, and also with

one or two exceptions the class- rooms in a neat condition

and unventilated

But the filthy condition of parts of the boys' latrine, the dilapidated

and useless condition of the lavatory, the black coal- heavers daubs on most of the doors, the disgraceful condition of some of the black boards, the accumulation of years' deposits of dust in globes and on the brackets of the

chandeliers, the fact gas that throughout the school the boys

are allowed to hold

pen or pencils in any way. they like, and that they

write

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