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NOTICE.

THE Committee of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge are desirous of explaining the degree of superintend-
ence which they think that they ought to exercise with respect to
this publication.

It will of course be their duty not to sanction anything incon-
sistent with the general principles of the Society. Subject, however,
to this general superintendence, they feel that the objects of the
Society will be better forwarded by placing before the readers of
this work the sentiments of able and liberal men, and thus enabling
them to form their own conclusions, as well from the difference as
from the agreement of the writers, than by proposing to them, as
if from authority, any fixed rule of judgment, or one uniform set of
opinions. It would also be inconsistent with the respect which the
Committee entertain for the persons engaged in the preparation of
these papers, were they to require them strictly to submit their
own opinions to any rule that should be prescribed to them. If,
therefore, the general effect of a paper be favourable to the objects
of the Society, the Committee will feel themselves at liberty to
direct its publication: the details must be the author's alone, and
the opinions expressed on each particular question must be con-
sidered as his, and not those of the Committee. As they do not
profess to make themselves answerable for the details of each par-
ticular essay, they cannot, of course, undertake for the exact con-
formity of the representations which different authors may make of
the same facts; nor, indeed, do they, for the reasons already given,
feel that such conformity is requisite.

By Order of the Committee,

THOMAS COATES, Secretary.

NOTIC E.

THE Committee of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge are desirous of explaining the degree of superintendence which they think that they ought to exercise with respect to this publication.

It will of course be their duty not to sanction anything inconsistent with the general principles of the Society. Subject, however, to this general superintendence, they feel that the objects of the Society will be better forwarded by placing before the readers of this work the sentiments of able and liberal men, and thus enabling them to form their own conclusions, as well from the difference as from the agreement of the writers, than by proposing to them, as if from authority, any fixed rule of judgment, or one uniform set of opinions. It would also be inconsistent with the respect which the Committee entertain for the persons engaged in the preparation of these papers, were they to require them strictly to submit their own opinions to any rule that should be prescribed to them. If, therefore, the general effect of a paper be favourable to the objects of the Society, the Committee will feel themselves at liberty to direct its publication: the details must be the author's alone, and the opinions expressed on each particular question must be considered as his, and not those of the Committee. As they do not profess to make themselves answerable for the details of each particular essay, they cannot, of course, undertake for the exact conformity of the representations which different authors may make of the same facts; nor, indeed, do they, for the reasons ready given, feel that such conformity is requisite.

By Order of the Committee,

THOMAS COATES, Secretary.

THE

QUARTERLY

JOURNAL OF EDUCATION.

HARROW SCHOOL.

[IT is one of the objects of this Journal to make known the courses of instruction pursued at Colleges and Public Schools, both domestic and foreign, with the view of attracting attention to any improvements that may be made, and diffusing information on the actual condition of places of education. We are happy now to have it in our power to present our readers with a complete account of the course at Harrow, on the accuracy of which they may fully rely.]

THE COURSE OF INSTRUCTION AT HARROW SCHOOL, INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF ITS DISCIPLINE, EXPENSES, PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS, EXAMINATIONS, &c.

THREE

The System adopted from Eton.

HREE or four head-masters of Harrow having been appointed immediately and almost in succession from Eton, the Eton system originally formed the basis of that of Harrow, but the resemblance between them is now chiefly confined to the times of vacation, the distribution of the schoolhours, the grammar of the lower forms, and the frequency of verse composition.

School Days and Hours.

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are whole school days; Tuesday is a whole holiday; Thursdays and Saturdays are half holidays. On Sundays the boys are in school from eight till nine, for the purpose of religious instruction; on all other days, except Tuesday, at half-past seven. Each school consists of one hour's work, except the first school, which is of about an hour and a half's duration; and the third school, at a quarter-past twelve on Thursdays (which applies only to the sixth and fifth forms, and is spent in a Lecture on Modern History and Literature), is of somewhat less than an hour's length.

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Roll-calls on Holidays and Half-holidays.

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On holidays and half-holidays the boys are compelled to answer at the call of The Bill' every two hours. On a holiday at nine and eleven o'clock, A. M.; dinner in their respective houses at one; bills again at two, four, and six in the summer. The bills on the half-holiday afternoons are the same as those on the afternoon of the holiday. The boys are locked up in their houses for the night at an hour varying according to the light, and ranging between a quarter-past five in the depth of winter and a quarter to nine about midsummer. The 'Bills' are called over in the school by the head-master, or one of his assistants, during one week; and by the under-master, or his assistant, during the following week; and so on during the term.

Establishment of Masters.

According to the original foundation of John Lyon, in the year 1585, the establishment of the school consisted of a master and an usher, who were both to reside in one house. They were bound to give gratuitous instruction to the sons of any inhabitants of the parish of Harrow, the master being at the same time permitted to receive the sons of persons residing elsewhere as boarders. The number of these foreigners' having considerably increased, the usher, now called the under-master, took a separate house, in which he received a more limited number of boys, at a higher salary, as private pupils of his own; and from the progressive advancement of the school the head-master found it necessary to engage assistants, who were also allowed to take private pupils into their houses. The number of assistants to the head-master is now four; the under-master has one.

Boarding Houses.

But while the under-master, and the several assistants, thus receive boys at an increased salary, the house of the headmaster, who does not act as private tutor to any of the boys under his roof, continues, according to the original intention of John Lyon, merely as a boarding-house. Besides which there are other boarding-houses upon the same footing with respect to terms, kept by private individuals otherwise unconnected with the school; but these houses are under strict control, and are constantly visited and inspected by the masters. As it is the invariable practice of the school that each boy should have a private tutor, the head-master nominates some one or other of the assistants to act in that capacity for every boy in his own house or in the several boarding-houses,

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