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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH SCHOOLS 119 Whatever is so learned is learned thoroughly, and learned for all time. To secure this, every Friday is given to a review of the week's work. A second review is had at the end of every month, while at the end of each ten weeks the quarter's work is gone over, when there is a written examination of all studies. Before the close of the year all past progress is again reviewed, followed by a General Public Examination. 13 We claim that results, more thor- ough and permanent, are so reached than by any other system." "Should a pupil fail to receive a mark of 7 in any of his daily recitations, he will invariably report to his teacher at the close of the afternoon Chapel service." As an incentive to good work and deportment, prizes were awarded to the boys who stood highest in the school for the year. 14 Although the scholastic work is highly praised in all of the Convocation Proceedings, there are a few facts which would indicate that if the work were really of a high character, the standards and methods must have been much different from those of the present day. For instance, in 1871-72, Mr. Burton had classes in Reading, Higher English Grammar, Rhetoric, History of English Literature, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Latin, and U. S . History. The other teachers had an equally large number. It is hard to conceive of one man teaching such a wide variety of subjects and doing it efficiently. For the year 1876-77, the grades are given and of a list of sixty-one students, over 70% ^received grades over 90, 23% between 80 and 90, with only 3% between 70 and 80, and almost no failures. There is one grade of 99.86%, two others over 99, and two exactly 99. Such an overwhelm- 13 Judge Deady describes a Public Examination at the Grammar School in which his son failed in Latin because he did not decline a noun properly. He says, "I thought at the time that Mr. Rosenberg gave him a harder example than he did anyone else and helped him less. But my feelings may have warped my judgment." 14 Consisted in 1873 of the Trinity Medal of $30 given to the pupil who stood highest in General Scholarship, Deportment and Attendance for the whole year, the Deady Medal of $25 for the pupil who stood high- est in Declamation, the Wilson Prize for the best Day pupil, Bishop Scott Prize, Head Master's Prize, etc., all being less. li II km