44 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS FOR SKCOls'DARY EDUCATION, 



otlier, giving way on points which to the Bishop appeared 

 essential. 



(ii) The Scope of the Institution. 



This was strictly on the lines of the previous attempt, 

 and was to be a College, not merely a School. Marriott, in 

 his appeal, amongst the quotations from Gell's letters, re- 

 ferring to English Colleges, gives the following: — "We 

 'must be content to begin as they did, with young scholars 

 'and elementary instruction^"' He also says: — "The 



''object, then, of the College is not, in the first instance, to 

 "form classes of divinity, law, physic, or natural philo- 

 ''sophy, but to prepare boys by a proper system of disci- 

 "pline, and development, and useful information 

 '■for entering on professional studies when they aiTive at 

 "the proper age." The ultimate aim, however, was for 

 the Institution gradually to draw Schools of the Colony up 

 to the standard of English Piiblic Schools, whilst it de- 

 veloped into the .=tatu3 of an English College connected 

 Avith one of the Universities. 



(///) I itrorixirafion of the Schools. 



This latter part is perhaps the least known and 

 understood of the various parts of the College scheme. In 

 Franklin's scheme the Queen's School at Hobart was to be 

 connected with Christ's College in the country by making 

 the Headmaster of the School a Fellow of the College, and 

 jnoviding that the Warden or Principal of the College 

 should examine and report upon the School, and have its 

 Regulations submitted for his sanction. 



Marriott's Appeal in England does not deal specifically 

 with this point, and as. the people he was then addressing 

 were not intimately acquainted with conditions existing in 

 the Colony, his Appeal naturally deals with the broad 

 l^rinciples of the proposed Institution. 



As noted above, however, he difjtinctly laid it down 

 that the proposed teaching would be for boys, as well as 

 for young men, and would commence at a low standard. 

 It is noteworthy that in his Appeal he only mentions two 

 English Colleges by name as illustrating the points in his 

 Appeal, namely, Eton and Winchester. Eton was at that 

 time, more so than at the present day, connect.ed with 

 King's College, Cambridge, Eton being a sichool for boys 

 and King's College a Univei'sity College for young men. 

 Similarly, New College, Oxford, and Winchester were both 

 founded by the same founder, and were connected Institu- 

 tions not only as regards their foundation, but also in that 

 the Warden and Fellows of the College for young men, 

 namely. New College, Oxford, had a right of examination 



