Terms of the School. The expenses of the school vary according to the house in which the boy is placed :— TUTOR'S HOUSE. The terms in an assistant's house, for board, washing, and tuition, are Schooling, a payment to the head and under master School charges Guineas Per Annum. 120 10 1 131 4 Single study (if required) HEAD-MASTER'S HOUSE. The terms in the head-master's house are, for board and The bills are sent in at the summer and Christmas holidays. Besides these regular charges there are of course bills for books; tailors', shoemakers', ditto; account of money for going home; weekly allowance, &c. ;-all which vary according to the habits of the boys, and the permission which parents give them to have more or less of the necessary article of dress, &c. provided at Harrow*. Boarding-Houses. The terms of the other boarding-houses are as nearly as possible the same as those of the head-master's. Foundation Boys. The total number of boys in the school at Midsummer, 1831, was two hundred and fourteen; whereof fifteen only were upon John Lyon's foundation. These latter boys are exempt from the payment of the ten guineas a year for schooling, and one guinea a year for school charges; in every other respect they are exactly on the same footing with the rest of their schoolfellows: they are likewise placed under private tutors; they are subject to the same bounds, and are compelled to answer at the same bills; they wear no peculiar *Masters in French, Italian, mathematics, drawing, dancing, and music, attend the school regularly. dress, nor is there, in point of feeling, the smallest distinction between them and the rest of the boys. Those governors of the school who are resident in the parish are in the habit of sending their boys to the school upon the foundation. Whole Holiday.-The Exercise set on Monday Evening to be done; Bills called during the day as above (see p. 2); Private Reading with Assistant Masters; Boys below the Shell in Pupil-Room, preparing their Exercises. The Third School is at 2 o'clock in winter, and the Fourth School at 4. Common-Place Books. Every boy in the sixth form has a set of common-place books, arranged according to subjects, in which he enters at the moment any notes connected with the lesson of the hour that may be dictated by the head-master. The nature of these notes may be seen by referring to the sixth-form examination papers, some of which accompany these details. If these notes are finished before the hour is concluded, there is always some more connected subject in hand, bearing more or less upon the lesson, which is pursued during the remainder of the time, and upon which the boys likewise enter notes in their common-place books. Examinations of Sixth-Form. The body of notes thus collected is to be referred to in preparation for the sixth-form half-yearly examination, which takes place before the summer holidays, and again in the end of November. Besides a general review of the subjects studied in school during the last half year, this examination always embraces a portion of Juvenal, which the boys prepare privately with their tutors. The nature of the examination will be seen from the papers above referred to. At the conclusion of each examination those boys who have acquitted themselves satisfactorily are arranged alphabetically in two classes. Those in the first-class receive a prize-book from the head-master; those who are twice placed in the second-class also receive a book; those boys who have not shown sufficient diligence are excluded from the printed list. This classing does not alter the places of the sixth-form boys in the school. The order of places is changed in every other form. Fifth-Form Examinations. This system of common-place books and half yearly examinations is also pursued in the fifth-form. Text Books. Several new text books have been introduced at Harrow within the last two years; they have been compiled and printed expressly for the use of the school, and are to be procured at Messrs. Payne and Foss, Booksellers, Pall-Mall. They are Historia Romana-substituted for the Eton Scriptores Romani. It contains the whole of Cicero pro Milone. Sallust. Bell. Catil. Livy, Books v., xxi., xxii., xxiii., xxxi., and xxxii. Musa Græca-substituted for Poetæ Græci-contains long extracts, whole odes, and entire scenes, from the works of the following authors Hesiod. Pindar. Aristophanes. Theocritus. Apollonius Rhodius. Callimachus; also, Fragments of Comic Writers. Philosophia Græca-contains extracts from Plato-Euthyphro. Menexenus. Apologia Socratis. Phædo. Xenophon. Memorab.-Lib I. Capp. 1, 4, 6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6. Aristotle-Ethics-A selection of chapters, keeping up the continuity of argument, and omitting what is unimportant in that point of view. Rhetoric-A selection of whole chapters. Poetics-The whole Treatise. Plutarch-De audiendis Poetis. Longinus-De Sublimitate. Poesis Græca-Selections from the Minor Poets, for the use of the fourth-form, substituted for 'Farnaby's Epigrams.' Maps and Tables of Chronology and Genealogy, from the overthrow of the western empire to the peace of Paris, 1815.—These have been selected and translated from Mons. Koch's Tableau des Révolutions de l'Europe, and, with some additions, have been published by Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-Row, for the use of Harrow school. They serve to illustrate the Lecture on Modern History, given on Thursdays. These are the whole of the works which have been put forth within the last two years for the use of the school. The maps used by the sixth and fifth forms are those contained in the Eton Atlas. The lower forms use Vincent's maps, maps to Butler's Geography, and Guthrie's maps. The editions of the classics used, are The text-book of Modern History is the English translation of Mons. Koch's Tableau des Révolutions de l'Europe. For Greek History, Malkin's History of Greece, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Scholarships. Before we proceed to the detail of business in the lower forms, we think it better to enter upon the subject of the scholarships attached to the school, and the examinations connected with them. Almost every boy in the sixth-form, and many of the fifth-form offer themselves as candidates for them; the course of study, therefore, preparatory to this examination may be considered as a necessary part of the education of every boy of average abilities who rises into the fifth-form. Four Governors' Scholarships. Four scholarships of fifty guineas a year each, to be held for four years, have been recently founded by the governors of the school. The boy who gains one of them must go either to Oxford or Cambridge; but he may enter at any college of either university. Two Sayer's Scholarships. Two scholarships have also been recently founded by the late John Sayer, Esq., of Park Crescent, Portland-Place. They are of fifty guineas a year each, to be held for four years; but the Sayer scholar must enter at Caius College, Cambridge. Examinations for them. The examination for these scholarships takes place in the month of March, every year; two Examiners, one from Oxford and one from Cambridge, being appointed by the headmaster for the purpose of holding it. The subjects for the following year are proposed after each examination; those for last year were, First Book of Herodotus. Fifth Book of Virgil's Æneid. St. Luke's Gospel. First two Books of Euclid, |