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(b.) Grammar (text-book —Morris's Primer of English Grammar): Relation of English to other languages; sounds and letters; the alphabet; parts of speech ; collective nouns—when singular and when plural; abstract nouns; gender—origin of different modes of distinguishing gender, ancient distinctions (e.g., " spinster," " vixen") ; number—-ancient modes of forming plurals (e.g., "children," "shoon," &c.) ; case —marks of ancient datives, accusatives, and genitives; origin of the apostrophe and " s" in the possessive ; articles and adjectives; irregular comparison; verbs, strong and weak ; pronouns.

Note.—ln addition to the above, four pupils (three males and one female) came for book-keeping only.

Subject taught. Number of Pupils in Clasa. Glass during Last Quarter of Year. Work done during the Year. (Number of scholars on roll:—Pas: total 6 : totals—M. 8, F. 20, t. English ... I. 3 II. 19 III. 6 Latin ... I. 3 II. 16 III. 3 French ... I. 3 II. 19 III. 6 Euclid ... I. 3 II. 16 III. 3 Algebra ... I. 3 Lolars or tals—M I. II. III. I. II. III. I. II. III. I. II. III. I. Feilding. sed Standard VI.—M. 7, F. 15, total 22 ; others—M. 1, F. 5, otal 28. Classes open one quarter—October-December.) Nesfield, Caps. 1-10 ; Julius Caesar read, and part of Ivanhoe. Nesfield, Caps. 1-6 ; literature as in I. Principia, to exercise L.; translation. Principia, to exercise XXVIII. Principia, to exercise XXI. Chardenal, I., to exercise 146 ; French without Tears, I. and II. Chardenal, I., to exercise 74; French without Tears, I., 31. Chardenal, I., to exercise 54; translation as in II. Book I. and Book II., propositions 1-8. Book I., propositions 1-32. Book I., propositions 1-24. Equations, simple and simultaneous ; factors ; problems ; and square root Easy factors. First four rules. Harder problems, stocks, &c. II. 19 III. 3 Arithmetic ... I., IL, 28 ITT II. III. L, II., III. L, IL, III. ill. Physiology ... I., IL, 3 III. 19 Book-keeping ... 6 and Shorthand Furneaux, to lesson 20. Furneaux, to lesson 18. Chambers's Examples; Teacher, half through. Haweea. (Number of scholars on roll:—Pass total c sed Standard VI.—M. 25, F. 19, total 44; others—M. 1, F. 2, 3: totals—M. 26, F. 21, total 47. English ... I. 47 Arithmetic ... I. 47 Latin ... I., II. 46 III. Algebra ... I., II. 47 III. Sir Walter Scott's Marmion (six cantos). Commercial rules ; mensuration. Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, Part I., 100 exercises. Euclid ... I., II. 14 French ... I. 14 Up to simultaneous equations (seniors —factors to simultaneous equations ; juniors — elementary rules, factors, simple equations). Book I. (seniors); Book I., 1 to 24 (juniors). French without Tears, Book I., part of Book II. ; Chardenal's First French Course, 100 exercises. Parsing and analysis; Synthesis; essay-writing (Nesfield's Grammar and Composition). Grammar and I. 47 Composition (Number of scholars on roll: —Pa F. 3, tota Maeton. English ... All ... 32 Arithmetic ... All ... 32 Latin ... Senior 1 Middle 26 Junior 1 French ... Senior 1 Junior 27 Euclid ... Senior 1 Junior 13 Algebra ... Senior 1 Junior 27 Physiology ... All ... 9 Book-keeping All ... 20 Geometrical All ... 3 drawing tolars c All ... All ... Senior Middle Junior Senior Junior Senior Junior Senior Junior All ... All ... All ... issed Standard VI.—M. 17, F. 11, total 28; others—M. 1, 1 4: totals—M. 18, F. 14, total 32.) First reading of Shakespeare's Julius Csesar; about a third of Ivanhoe ; grammar and composition more advanced than Standard VI. Goyen, to end of metric system. Valpy's Delectus; Bradley, to about exercise 40. Macmillan's Shorter Course, to about exercise 40. Macmillan's Shorter Course, to about exercise 20. Bue's First Book. First Chardenal, to about exercise 80. Book I. Book I., to proposition 8. To simultaneous equations. Four elementary rules. Skeleton ; muscles. Thornton's First Lessons, to lesson 3. About twenty elementary problems on triangles and quadrilaterals.