SCHOOLS 



Glee Club, Natural History, Debating and 

 Literary Societies, flourish. There are leav- 

 ing exhibitions of £50 to £60 a year, called 

 from their donors the Forest, Haviland, Da 

 Silva and Du Pasquier Exhibitions, to Oxford 

 or Cambridge ; the Anstie, Leach and Don- 

 caster Scholarships of £2$ to £40 ; the Harvey 

 Owen Scholarship of ;Cso a year; and a 

 Jenks Scholarship of £27 a year ; while nine 

 of the chief London Hospitals give free medi- 

 cal education to a boy from the College, 

 a Carr Exhibition of £$0 a year for five 

 years being added to that granted by Univer- 

 sity College. Endowed prizes for Divinity, 

 English Essay and Historical Essay, Classics 

 and Mathematics prevent science from being 

 too predominant ; while such recent achieve- 

 ments as open scholarships at New College, 

 Oxford, the Sword of Honour at Sandhurst, 

 and the appointment of an old pupil as 

 Director of the school of Economics in Lon- 

 don show that the School is as catholic in its 

 curriculum as a Public School should be. 

 They testify to the efficiency of Mr. Smith- 

 Pearse and his staff of seventeen assistant 

 masters, most of them scholars or exhibi- 

 tioners of Oxford or Cambridge Colleges. 



COMPANY SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS 



Of a later invention, and in this county, 

 mostly for girls, are the schools founded and 

 kept by limited companies, registered under 

 the Companies' Acts. The two chief com- 



panies are the Girls' Public Day Schools Com- 

 pany, which aims simply at a ' public school ' 

 education for all girls, and the Church Schools 

 Company, which primarily attends to the 

 daughters of members of the Church of Eng- 

 land. The former have schools at Wimble- 

 don and Sutton ; the latter at Guildford, 

 Reigate, Richmond and Surbiton. 



COUNTY COUNCIL SCHOOLS 



The latest kinds of schools are the County 

 Council Schools, established out of public 

 funds, by or under the tutelage of the Surrey 

 County Council. These comprise the Dork- 

 ing High School, originally established as a 

 Mechanics' Institute, now a school of some 

 seventy boys, under the Rev. H. Roberts, at 

 fees of £6 a year ; the County School, Rich- 

 mond, established 1899, headmaster, Mr. 

 A. E. Buckhurst, fees £6 a year, boys 150; 

 the County School, Sutton, established 

 1900, headmaster, Mr. E. A. Hensley, fees 

 £6 a year, boys 104. For girls, there is 

 the County School at Wallington, originally 

 established as the High School, Carshalton, 

 bought by the County Council in 1 895 . The 

 fees are £j los. a year. 



The Rutlish Science School at Merton is a 

 school of the same type, but is endowed, hay- 

 ing been founded out of an apprenticeship 

 charity, under a scheme of the Charity Com- 

 missioners in 1894. 



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