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commercial side, and instruction in technical science was to be given in Daniel 

 Stewart's Institution to such pupils as desired it. In both scliools male teachers 

 only were to be employed, and the number of pupils in each class was not to ex- 

 ceed a maximum of forty, so that the education of every one of them might be 

 fully attended to. The fees for the whole course have been fixed at from 10s. to .30s. 

 a quarter. In the upper girls' school (" The Edinburgh Educational Institution ") 

 the course of study was to embrace all the branches usually taught in the principal 

 institutions and boarding-schools foryoung ladies, and to include the English, French, 

 German, and Latin languages ; lectures on literature ; writing, arithmetic, book- 

 keeping, algebra, mathematics, physical science, drawing, vocal music, instruction 

 on the pianoforte, drill, calisthenics, dancing, and needlework. As in the upper boys' 

 schools, the classes were not to contain more than forty pupils. With the excep- 

 tion of the elementary department, where female teachers only were to be em- 

 ployed, the institution was to be taught altogether by masters, with a governess 

 attached to each class, to be constantly in attendance upon it. The fees for the 

 whole course have been fixed at from" 12s. Gd. to 50s. a quarter. In the second 



German. In all the schools religious instruction was to be given. A " conscience 

 clause " was put in operation. At first, only about ten children took advantage of 

 it, but as the session advanced no exception whatever existed on behalf of even a 

 single pupil. 



It will be seen that, for the education to be given in the schools, the fees are 

 very low. The principle upon which they were fixed, as regards the three upper 

 schools, is, that they be sufficient to cover the expense of the additional teaching 

 required, without anything being charged as against the rent of the hospital 

 buildings, which were to be turned into day-schools, or for the expense of the 

 teaching staff" formerly kept up for the foundationers when the buildings wereused 

 for the double purpose of giving board and education, and which was expensive if 

 reckoned at so much a pupil. Take, for illustration, the upper girls' school (the 

 Edinburgh Educational Institution), with its 1200 pupils. Of these, about 70 

 were foundationers, and 1130 day-scholars. For the latter, the number of teachers 

 and governesses was sufficiently increased, the expense of this new staff being de- 

 frayed by the fees which these day-scholars pay, and which amount to between 

 £7000 and £8000 a year. Thus, if there had been no other new expenses con- 

 sequent upon the changes, the education of these 11 -"'O day-pupils would have been 

 productive of neither gain nor loss to the Trust. But there was the rent of the new 

 houses to pay for, in which some of the foundationers were to reside, and those of 

 them who were -to be boarded out in families would cost somewhat more than 

 when they lived in the hospital building. Then money had to be found for the 

 bursaries and fellowships, &c. To meet these new expenses the number of 

 foundationers was partially to be reduced. Gillespie's Schools, being established 

 for the children of the humbler classes on payment of low fees, are, of course, 

 productive of a small annual loss, which is, however, met by the growing income 

 of the foundation. 



The money required for the expenses of the new purposes of the Scheme was to 

 be obtained bjr reducing the number of foundationers of the three ediicational 

 hospitals. The reduction, which was to be eflected as soon as convenient, was as 

 follows, viz. the foundationers of the Merchant Maiden Hospital to be reduced 

 from 75 to 01, those of George Watson's from 80 to GO, and those of Daniel 

 Stewart's from 69 to 40. The preference claims of childien who bore particular 

 names were altogether abolished. Great evils arose from the obligation to admit 

 such children to educational hospitals. Their education was too often neglected 

 by their guardians in their earlier years, who thought that there was little use 

 troubling themselves about it, or pajang school-fees since they would be sure of 

 getting them into a hospital where everything would be done for them. The 

 consequence was, that these children were generally unfit to be placed in the same 

 class with others of a like age; they required an unusually large amount of labour 

 to be expended upon them, and, as a rule, were a drag upon the whole institution. 



