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Assistant Teachers; and under Clause 58, the High Master shall receive £300
a year, and the Head Master of the Modern School £200 a year; and that
each shall receive from £3 to £6 a year as a capitation payment for less than
300 scholars, and £2 a year when it exceeds that number. The scheme here is
set at nought. There is only, as evidenced by the published statement of
accounts, one Head Master—that of the Classical Department; he has the
power of appointing and removing Assistant Teachers in both the Classical and
the Modern Departments; he further receives £300 a year, also a capitation
payment of £5 a year for 300 scholars, and £2 a year for 300 scholars, making
a total yearly sum of £2,375 6s. 8d., besides a palatial residence.
14. The standard of entrance examination for admission to both the Classical
and Modern Departments (Clauses 69 and 71) is a low one, and which, with the
exception of the elements of Latin Grammar in the former, and the elements
of French Grammar in the latter, should be easily overcome by any boy who
has passed the 5th or 6th Standard of Education of the Educational Department,
and which is higher than that intended by Dean Colet. But the
Governors of St. Paul's School have so raised the minimum standards mentioned
in the scheme, that all children from Elementary Schools and MiddleClass
Schools are excluded not only from the Foundation, but from the School
itself, and it is now simply a School for the boys of the highest classes of
society. Instead of the 153 free places on the Foundation being open to all
children—especially of the poor, who cannot pay for a liberal education—they
are now severally competed for by boys from High-Class Preparatory Schools;
the subjects of examination for the free places being English, Latin, Greek,
French ancl Mathematics.
15. That the form of the Abstract of Accounts, as ordered in the amended
scheme, is not carried out by the Governing Body, since the payments for the
Classical and Modern Departments are not shown separately.
16. That 153 boys on the Foundation are educated for £15,114 18s. 8d.,
while 440 boys are educated for £10,902 2s.; it is therefore contended that 600
boys, and not 153 only, should be educated for £15,114 18s. 8d.
17. That from the published statements of accounts it appears that of an
income of £27,233 10s. 5d. ,
£ s. d.
The High Master receives - 2,375 6 8
The Assistant Teachers receive - -- 9,871 11 8
For School Apparatus is expended - 308 2 8
„ Paper, Pens, Ink, etc. - - - - - 136 2 11
„ School Sports ------- 113 7 5
for care of school buildings-
For Bepairs is expended - - - - - 920 9 6
„ Servants „ - - - 911 15 0
„ Keeping up Garden is expended - - - 602 8 10
„ Gas, Water, Coal „ - 491 17 9
18. The present constitution of the Governing Body of the School does not
inspire confidence in the people of London. The preponderating representation
of the Meicers Company is wholly unsatisfactory; and the eminent persons
nominated by the Universities have many other avocations which preclude them
from giving close and personal attention to the affairs of the School. Your