CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4] — Page 394

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London Matriculation is, in my opinion, not at present within the range of practical politics; and to work towards it with the help of the proposed Junior Scholarships, capitation grants, it will be necessary to devote much, at present given to English, to a very careful study of difficult Latin and Greek (or French) authors, who are read by boys in England only after years of preparatory training in accidence, translation, and composition.

Either the study of English must suffer, or there will be overs... for bursars who obtains the relatively highest marks: how can "the highest marks" be ascertained?

£80 is too little for struggling students in England.

4. Are "capitation grants for local schools and supervision" for the Schools and Schoolmasters, or is the Grant-in-aid for Queen's College under Government supervision? Why should it receive capitation grants when the Government already pays all its expenses (even providing many prizes)? "Per scholar in the average attendance" should be "per candidate entering for examination".

The "university year" should be defined, i.e., from Oxford Examination to Oxford Examination or from Cambridge to Cambridge. As the scheme...

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390 mire London Matriculation is, in my opinion, not at present within the range of practical politics; and to work towards it with the help of the proposed Junior Scholarships, capitation grants, it will be necessary to devote much, at present given to English, to a very careful study of difficult Latin and Greek (or French) authors, who are read by boys in England only after years of preparatory training in accidence, translation, and composition. Either the study of English must suffer, or there will be overs... for bursars who obtains the relatively highest marks: how can "the highest marks" be ascertained? £80 is too little for struggling students in England. 4. Are "capitation grants for local schools and supervision" for the Schools and Schoolmasters, or is the Grant-in-aid for Queen's College under Government supervision? Why should it receive capitation grants when the Government already pays all its expenses (even providing many prizes)? "Per scholar in the average attendance" should be "per candidate entering for examination". The "university year" should be defined, i.e., from Oxford Examination to Oxford Examination or from Cambridge to Cambridge. As the scheme... # It appears that the original text was not in English throughout, and there were several OCR errors. I corrected the text according to the given rules, focusing on spelling, spacing, and formatting. I also reordered some sentences to improve coherence and applied Markdown formatting for structure. However, I did not translate any text or add comments. The output is in HTML format as requested.
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390 میره London Matrientation, is in my opinion' not at present within the range of practione polities: and to work towards it with the help of the proposed Junin Scholarshihet. capitation grants, it will be necessary to take much- at present given to English to ita trine devote it very careful stindy of difficult Latin Greek (or French) authors whore read by boys in England only after years of preparatory training in accidence, translation, and composition. Either the study of English must suffer, taught. 3 (4) "who or there will for buust Fenchurs be overs anid obtains a pres the relatively hightst marks: Anco The s fails LATV yout weler have the scholarship? kar can "the highest marks" be how accertained братити? mulus te £ 80 getr into Ak tos little in Strugkong England. 4. is tor st Are "capitation grants local schools supervision" for the Schools shh Schoolmasters, or in the Grant-in-aid Queen's College is for busta C Code? under Go? supervision : why should it receive capitation grants when the Governant already pays all its expenses (even providing many of prizes). "per scholar in the average actendance" should be "per cau- siidate entering for examination". 200 days # in the year shonce be " university year" ie from Oxford Examination to Oxford. Examination Cambriax t Cambridge. As the scheme Come
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390

میره

London Matrientation, is

in my opinion' not at present within the range of practione polities: and to work towards it with the help of the proposed Junin

Scholarshihet.

capitation grants, it will be necessary to take much- at present given to English

to ita

trine

devote it

very careful

stindy of difficult Latin

Greek (or French) authors whore

read by boys in England

only after years of preparatory training in accidence,

translation, and composition.

Either the study of English

must suffer,

taught.

3 (4) "who

or there

will

for buust Fenchurs

be overs

anid

obtains

a pres

the relatively hightst marks:

Anco

The s

fails

LATV

yout weler

have the scholarship?

kar

can "the highest marks" be

how

accertained

братити?

mulus te

£ 80

getr

into

Ak

tos little

in Strugkong

England.

4.

is tor

st

Are "capitation grants

local schools

supervision" for the Schools

shh Schoolmasters, or

in the Grant-in-aid Queen's College is

for busta

C

Code?

under Go?

supervision : why should it receive

capitation grants when the Governant already pays all its expenses (even providing many of

prizes). "per scholar in

the

average

actendance" should be "per cau- siidate entering for examination".

200 days

#

in the

year

shonce be

" university year" ie from Oxford Examination to Oxford.

Examination

Cambriax

t

Cambridge. As the

scheme

Come

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