SCHOOLS 



The distinctions gained in outside examinations, and at the universities 

 and university colleges, were more than is usual in such schools. 

 The following scholarships and exhibitions were founded : 

 In 1883 Mr. Henry Martyn Jeffery established, in memory of Miss 

 Curgenwen, an exhibition of the value of the school fees, which has been 

 generally offered for competition among boys entering the school from the 

 elementary schools of Cheltenham. 



In 1888 Mr. W. H. Gwinnett, then chairman of the governing body, 

 gave 100 to the school, which sum was increased by subscription among 

 friends of the school, so as to provide a scholarship of the value of the school 

 fees, and in 1902, after Mr. Gwinnett's death, a similar scholarship was 

 founded in his memory by subscription. 



Mr. W. Dades-Overton, of Swindon, near Cheltenham, bequeathed 

 1,000 to found an exhibition, tenable at either Oxford or Cambridge, open 

 to all boys who have been in the school for three years. 



The school had no playing-field for its own use, but shared a field with a 

 local cricket club until 1896, when it obtained the use of playing-fields of 

 about 12 acres at Battledown. A house at Battledown, overlooking the 

 playing-fields, was rented in 1896 for the head master, who removed from 

 Wolseley House with a small number of boarders. 



The Local Taxation Act of 1890 had placed at the disposal of the 

 Cheltenham Corporation a sum of money to be spent upon technical and 

 scientific instruction. A portion of this grant was allotted to the grammar 

 school for the maintenance of its science classes, a portion to the school of art 

 carried on in the Clarence Street Buildings, and the rest to extending a 

 collection of evening classes and classes for adults, which had been held for 

 some time in laboratories adjoining the school of art and public library, and 

 to setting up in connection with it a ' day and boarding school for boys.' 

 The day-school for boys was conducted in the Clarence Street Buildings ; 

 scientific and commercial subjects were taught under the direction of the 

 science master, now head master, of ' The Public School of Science and 

 Technical School,' at the low fee of 6 a year, and boarders were invited. 



The school was not successful, but it caused indirectly considerable 

 injury to the grammar school. 



In 1894 an agreement was entered upon by which the grammar school 

 governors took over the buildings, assets, and liabilities of the school of 

 science, and agreed to set up a distinct ' modern side ' in the grammar 

 school, and to admit to it any scholars of the school of science. Certain 

 members of the executive committee of the school of science were admitted 

 to the meetings of the governing body, where, however, they had no legal 

 status and no right to vote, and a so-called ' hybrid committee ' of certain 

 governors of the grammar school and certain members of the executive 

 committee of the school of science was formed to administer the work of 

 the evening classes. 



An amending scheme of 1898 regularized the transaction already 

 accomplished, and permitted the school to carry on the work of evening 

 classes which it had been conducting since 1894. At the same time it 

 extended the leaving age of pupils to 1 8 or 19 years, and removed 

 limitations of the curriculum. Three additional representatives of the 



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