SCHOOLS 



salary of the masters was increased to 150 a y ear > of which the head 

 master took 112 ios., and the under master the rest, 37 icxr. Next 

 year 10 was allowed for prizes. Mr. Hannam-Clark, who was in the 

 school from 1859 to 1867, has in his Memories of the College School given a 

 vivid picture of the school under Mr. Fowler and Mr. Haines. The methods 

 were somewhat mediaeval. The head master kept a cane in his desk, and 

 every Saturday morning, after hearing catechism, held an inquest in which 

 the assistant masters reported to him the delinquents of the week, who were 

 then caned on the hand, the whole school looking on. The system of 

 memoria technlca was used, English history and other subjects of instruction 

 being compressed into unmeaning tags arranged in hexameters. The desks 

 were used for marble trains and ink-rivers. Fighting ' the cads,' especially 

 on 5 November, was a favourite pastime. But withal the boys liked 

 Mr. Fowler and appreciated his geniality and sympathy. On his birthday 

 presents of plate were made to him and a half-holiday obtained. One good 

 ' howler ' in translation is recorded by him, ' Parce metu ' being rendered 

 ' Spare me and you.' 



Haines, called Badger Haines, is well known, to the antiquarian at least, 

 by his monumental book on Monumental Brasses, the leading authority on 

 its subject, published in 1861, when he was only thirty-one years of age. 

 ' His gentle good nature combined with perfect strictness and justice, made 

 him pre-eminently the popular master.' Yet the cane plays a striking part 

 in the tales told of him by Mr. Clark. He took boarders first at Paddock 

 House, and then in Hampden House, Barton Street. Though he died at 

 the age of only forty-six on 14 October, 1872, he had been twenty-three 

 years second master. His old pupils appropriately set up a memorial brass to 

 him in the north transept of the cathedral. 



From 1862 the head master was allowed 80 and the under master 40 

 a year for house rent. The Schools Inquiry Commission, represented by 

 Mr. A. H. Stanton, found in 1866 a school of 96 boys, under the Reverend 

 Hugh Fowler. Of these 42 were boarders in the head master's house, while 

 there were some ten boarded with Miss Mascall in the cathedral precinct. 

 The school consisted of one large schoolroom and one small classroom only. 

 The education was that usual in public schools, mainly classical and mathe- 

 matical. The boys, chiefly drawn from the professional classes, were pre- 

 paring for the universities or professional life and paid tuition fees of 8 8s. 

 to jTio i os. a year. It is strange to read that caning on the hand was still 

 the usual punishment ; 'blocking or caning at the block' on another portion 

 of the human frame for severer punishment * not having lately been resorted 

 to.' The work both in classics and mathematics was favourably reported on. 



As a result of the passing of the Endowed Schools Act, 1869, in May, 

 1870, a joint committee of the dean and chapter and the town council made 

 proposals for uniting the College School and the Crypt School and the endow- 

 ments of the Blue Coat School under a single governing body, for the support 

 of a single grammar school with classical and modern sides, an English (or 

 third grade) school, and a girls' school. Unfortunately the Endowed Schools 

 Commissioners were too busy elsewhere at the moment to take up the case, 

 and the denominational difficulty of uniting the Cathedral School with the 

 Crypt School, a school by foundation undenominational under the Endowed 



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