TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION L. Brie (ve 
The age of admission should be not later than twelve. 
The method of selection of junior scholars should include nomination by the 
head teacher of the school from which the girl comes, proving her to be suitable 
in ability, conduct, health, and home conditions for more advanced work and a 
wider curriculum, This should be followed by a written examination, held by the 
staff of the secondary school into which the girl is received, in arithmetic and 
English, and this paper test must be supplemented by an oral examination as well 
as by a medical examination of the best candidates. 
For intermediate scholars the examination held by the Joint Scholarships 
Board should be superseded by some recognised examination taken in the ordinary 
school course, ¢,g., the Junior Oxford or Cambridge Local. 
Yor senior or leaving scholarships the candidates should haye taken some 
certificate qualifying for admission to a university before leaving the sixth form. 
The monetary value of junior scholarships should cover school fees, books and 
stationery, and travelling expenses (if any), with a small margin for incidental 
outlays. The value of intermediate scholarships should be about half as much 
again, to provide a maintenance grant and to induce parents to keep a suitable 
girl at school as long as they can afford it, 
The rejection of the unfit should be done as early as possible and without 
hesitation ; but, if the method of selection is thorough and careful, not many 
scholars, once entered, will prove unsuitable. The most usual reason for such 
unfitness is previous ‘ cram,’ but a wise entrance examination will detect this evil. 
Conditions of award.—Scholarships ought not to be confined to pupils from 
any special class of school, but should be open to all girls, whether previously 
educated in elementary or private schools or at home. Some should be awarded 
to girls already in the secondary school who show sufficient merit and whose 
parents have slender means. 
. The duration of tenure of junior scholarships should depend on periodical 
reports, but should be generously extended from year to year to satisfactory 
scholars up to the age of sixteen, z.e., for at least four years. 
Intermediate scholarships should be given to a judiciously selected number of 
junior scholars who have passed a qualifying examination proving them to be able 
to profit by remaining at school till the age of eighteen. ‘These, again, should be 
followed up by senior or leaving scholarships for the few who wish to go to the 
university. 
Treatment of scholars.—Scholarship-holders should be welcomed in the 
secondary school as keeping up a high standard of work and conduct, and helping 
to break down any tendency to foster class distinctions. Each girl should stand 
on her own merits, independently of social position or creed. No difference should 
be made in any way between fee-payiny and non-fee-paying pupils, unless it be to 
bring forward the latter, who by industry or ability haye won free places, 
5, The Scholarship System as affecting Preparatory Schools. 
By G. Gipitry Rosinson, IA. 
Entrance scholarships at the public schools are of great importance to 
preparatory schools, both from the financial and from the educational point 
of view. 
(i) Financial—Candidates from preparatory schools are by no means neces- 
sarily sons of wealthy people. The parents often make self-sacrificing efforts: the 
schoolmasters do much to help them. For many such boys scholarships are an 
inestimable boon or even necessary. Onthe other hand, parents who do not need 
scholarships are keen to get them; for competition stimulates a boy to do his 
best, and if successful he makes a good start and is not overlooked inthe crowded 
world of a public school. If elected on the foundation at Eton or Winchester, 
he has the advantage of living among a picked lot of clever boys. Sometimes 
scholarships are declined by wealthy people for their sons; but generally they are 
