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Education as connected icith Agriculture. 
vision for the instructors, if all the responsibility, the discretion, 
and the ruling power required, is to be provided from this fund. 
Apart from endowments, which are in contemplation, or gra- 
tuitous service, the payment of 5/. per boy, to provide a fund of 
500/., is probably the lowest that can ensure efficiency ; and this 
is a lower rate per head than Mr. Brereton contemplated in 
1858, when he included the cost of supervision on an extended 
scale in the account. 
If we would make a separate estimate of the cost of lodf/inc/, 
we may reckon that to provide 5 per cent, interest on 6000/. 
(300/.), with 140/. for repairs and taxes, 440/. in all, a payment 
would be required of 4 guineas per head from each boarder, 
besides a 1 guinea fee from, say 20, day-boys. 
The board, as we have seen, is set at' 17/. ; any estimate, 
therefore, for general application would probably allow — 
£ s. d. 
For board 17 00 
For lodging 440 
For tuition 5 5 0 
2G 9 0 
Or, say, 281. for the senior class, and 25?. for juniors. 
This review would be very incomplete without some mention 
of the endowment of the chaplaincy with 1000/. by the late 
Earl Fortescue, as well as of the scholarships or prizes already 
presented or in contemplation. 
Prebendary Brereton now gives annually two scholarships, 
one of 15/., the other of 10/., and it has been so provided that 
his benefactions will be made permanent. The present Earl 
Fortescue has offered 500/., and the late Hon. J. Fortescue left 
200/. for the endowment of scholarships connected with this 
institution. The Bishop of Exeter gives a scholarship of 5/. for 
knowledge of Holy Scripture. 
W. H. Hooper, Esq., the Rev. H. S. Pinder, Lord Poltimore, 
and the Rev. W. Thorold have likewise given smaller bene- 
factions. 
A residence of thirty years in the University of Cambridge 
gives me some confidence in avowing my belief that in no other 
way could benefactions of this kind and extent have been made 
so telling in our present social and intellectual position. 
At Cambridge a scholarship of 10/. or 15/. a year is almost 
valueless, so little does it contribute to the sum of a poor scholar's 
necessary expenditure, while as badges of proficiency we have 
enough and almost to spare of such rewards. In a county school, 
a scholarship *in the usual sense, tenable for two or three years, 
