192 REPORT — 1855. 



and in the playground, as a part of moral as well as intellectual training, and with 

 decidedly favourable results. 



• One of the objects of this training institution was to afford means of professional 

 training to those who were devoting chemselves to teaching. Since the commence- 

 ment of its operations in this respect, twenty-seven years ago, about 2000 teachers, 

 male and female, have been trained to conduct the system. Of these, about 200 

 have gone to Poor Law Unions in England, and the remainder are scattered over 

 the United Kingdom and the Colonies. At present the number of male and female 

 normal students is 98. The great demand for school trainers from England, may 

 be dated from the year 1837, during which year we were honoured by a visit from 

 Sir J. P. K. Shuttleworth and C. J. Tuffnell, Esq. 



The following institutions have been established on the same principle and for the 

 same objects, viz. the Wesleyan Normal College, Westminster (all the masters of which 

 were trained in Glasgow) ; Church of England Normal College, Cheltenham ; White- 

 land's Training Institution, Chelsea ; Congregational Normal College, Homerton ; and 

 in the Colonies, one has been established in Antigua, Jamaica, Calcutta, Ceylon, and 

 Prince Edward Island. In the Danish islands, by order of the Government, the 

 Training System is being universally established under trained teachers from Antigua. 



During the seven or eight years previous to the establishment of their own 

 Normal Training College in Westminster, the Wesleyan Education Committee of 

 London sent 442 teachers to be trained at Glasgow for their own schools in En- 

 gland and the Colonies. 



Statistics of a Glasgow Grammar School Class of 115 Boys. 

 By Andrew Tennent, Banker, Glasgow. 



About sixty years ago a class was formed in the Grammar School of Glasgow, 

 consisting of 115 boys, whose average age would be eight to nine years, chiefly sons 

 of the Glasgow merchants, manufacturers, and shopkeepers. There were also 

 among them some of the sons of the professors of the college, and of the clergy of 

 the city, both established and dissenting. A son of the then Lord Provost was also 

 of the number, as well as several of the sons of the then magistrates, besides a few 

 sons of operative weavers, masons, and others. Of these 115 boys who entered 

 school together sixty years ago, 76 are known to be dead ; the fate of 13 is uncer- 

 tain ; and 26 are still alive ; 24 appear to have died before attaining 30 years of 

 age; 21 between the ages of 30 and 40 ; 13 between 40 and 50 ; 5 between 50 and 

 60 ;' 6 between 60 and 63 ; 7 between 63 and 68 ; in all 76 ascertained to be dead ; 

 and as the presumption is that the 13 uncertain are also dead, the total deaths up 

 to this date will be 89- 



The after professions of the 115 boys appear to have been as follows : — 



53 Merchants and manufacturers. 

 7 Lawyers. 



1 Editor. 

 4 Clerks. 



3 Military officers. 

 3 Clergymen. 

 3 Sailors. 



2 Private gentlemen. 

 2 Bankers. 

 1 Professor. 

 1 Artist. 



2 Weavers. 

 1 Exciseman. 

 1 Private soldier. 

 1 Warper. 

 1 Surgeon. 

 1 Carter. 

 1 Bank porter. 

 „w / Uncertain, most of whom died 

 1 young. 



115 



The author traced the progress in life of these boys, comparing their occupations 

 with the tendencies manifested at school, and notices the political and social changes 

 during the period. 



The scene, however, so far as regards them, is now drawing to a close. Of the 

 115 who began the world together and fought the battles of life, 26 alone remain, 

 now no longer boys, but aged men approaching the ordinary limits of human Ufe — 

 threescore years and ten ; and, in conclusion, it may be remarked, that the history 

 of these 115 boys is, probably, the average history of every other 115 boys similarly 

 circumstanced, and may be useful in moderating all mere worldly aspirations. 



