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standards, in order to induce students

who have passed those standards to mi- grate to the Queen's College. That college would then in turn cease to give instruction below the level of the

second standard.

7. How far some such change is at

present feasible I must leave you to

decide after further consideration in the light of local knowledge, but I should not feel confident that it would

be either possible or desirable to con- tract the teaching in the elementary

to the extent contemplated by Schools se mueren this proposal center. plates.

8. On the other hand I hope that you may be able to devise some modifications

in the existing system which will give it more unity by making the work of the Queen's college supplement without overlapping the work of the elementary

schools. The college in short should

gradually be made more of a secondary

and less of an elementary school. I am

inclined to think that one step at any

rate may be taken at once and that the

college should be withdrawn from the

cognizance of the Inspector of Schools,

being either placed under a Board of

Governors or at any rate tested by a

Board