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imaginative mind pictures of the contour of each country, instead of burdening the memory with details to be crammed from a book,
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Books. If the foregoing reforms are necessary, it will also be necessary to prepare special sets of books for the purpose. Sporadic attempts have been made in this direction by individual Masters but their endeavours have not met with sufficient encouragement. If the funds at present available for the purchase of books and school materials were applied with a stricter regard to economy, books prepared by Masters and revised or sanctioned by an official committee could be procured or printed without extra expenditure. But it will be necessary to make a rule that no book prepared, owned or partly owned by any Master shall henceforth be used in the School, at the expense of the Government or limitation of the scholars, without special approval and the price by His Excellency the Governor.
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Attendance Register. Strange to say, there is no separate daily Attendance Register kept by the Master of each class, but the Masters are supposed to ascertain (without calling the roll, for they have none) the names and roll numbers of boys absent or returning after long absence. This is a far more troublesome process than the simple daily roll call in use in all other schools. The consequence is, in the first instance, that the returns sent to the office are by means of this report books unreliable and cause omissions and errors in the roll book and fee book made up by the clerks at the office. But the second drawback consists in the fact that under this system, no effective check...
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imaginative mind pictures of the contour of each country, instead of burdening the memory with details to be crammed
from a book,
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Books. if the foregoing reforms are necessary,
will also be necessary to prepare special sets of books for the purpose. Sporadic attempts have been made in this di- rection by individual Masters but their endeavours have not met with sufficient encouragement. If the funds at present available for the purchase of books and school materials were applied with a stricter regard to economy, books pre- pared by Masters and revised or sanctioned by an official committee could be procured or printed without extra expen- diture. But it will be necessary to make a rule that no book prepared owned or partly owned by any Master shall henceforth be used in the School, at the expense of the Government or
limitation of the scholars, without special approval and
the price by His Excellency the Governor.
11.
Attendance Register. Strange to say there is no separate daily Attendance Register kept by the Master of
supposed to ascertain (wi- each class, but the Masters are thout calling the roll for they have none) the names ano roll numbers of boys absent or returning after long absence. This is a far more troublesome procesuing than the simple daily roll call in use in all other schools. The consequence is, in the first instance, that the returns sent to the office ax by means of thise report books are unreliable and cause Omissions and errors in the roll book and fee book made up by the clerks at the office. But the second drawback con- sists in the fact that under this system no effective check
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