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Appendix.

2. Wokk of Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest —English -Shakespeare, Tempest; Chaucer, Squiere's Tale ; Milton, Paradise Lost* Book I; Pope, Essay on Man ; Palgrave's Golden Treasury, Book II (selections) ; liuskin, Sesame and Lilies ; Smith's English Language ; Frazer's English Prose. Latin —Livy, Book V ; Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia ; Horace, Odes, Book I; Virgil, Georgics IV ; sight translation and prose composition ; Shuckburgh's History of Rome; Wilkins's Roman Antiquities. French— Daudet, Le Petit Chose, Part I; Corneille, Le Cid ; Siepmann's Course, Part III; composition, grammar, phonetics, &c. Mathematics —Arithmetic (whole subject); algebra, Barnard and Child, to Chapter 43; geometry, Hall and Stevens; trigonometry, Hall and Knight. Science—Chemistry, the metals, revision of nonmetals, elementary qualitative analysis ; physics, heat. Lowest. —English —Smith, Book of Verse, Part II; Mungo Park, Travels in Africa; Scott, Talisman ; Gow's Method of English, Part I. English History —Tout's First Book of British History (IIIo) to 1660; (Hld) to 1628. Geography —Herbertson's Preliminary Geography. Latin —Macmillan's Shorter Latin Course, Part I; Scott and Jones's First Latin Course. French —Siepmann's Primary French Course, Part I (IIIo), lessons 1-26 ; (Hld) 1-15. Mathematics —Loney and Grenville's Shilling Arithmetic ; algebra, Baker and Bourne, (IIIc) to simultaneous equations, (IIId) to easy problems; geometry, Hall and Stevens, theorems 1-28, experimental work. Science —Newth, Elementary Inorganic Chemistry ; Gregory and Simmons, Elementary Physics. Girls' School. Highest. —English —Chaucer, part of The Prologue and extracts from Tales ; Shakespeare, King Lear, Macbeth ; Milton, Paradise Lost (Book IV), Comus, Lycidas ; Ruskin, selections; Nesfield's Historical English Grammar; Nesfield's Senior Composition ; literature, general, with readings from modern poets ; Peacock's Selected Essays; Makower and Blackwell's Selected Essays ; Spenser, Tennyson, Epochs; Macpherson-Johnson, Wordsworth, Comparative Prose and Comparative Poetry. Latin —Livy, Book I, seventeen chapters ; Horace, Odes, Book I (fourteen odes), (three satires) ; Cicero, Brackenbury's Selections ; Virgil, iEneid, Book V (two eclogues); composition, grammar, &c, Roman History and Antiquities. French —Macmillan's Advanced Exercises; Wellington College Reader; Boielle, Poetry; Pellissier, French Unseens for Upper Forms ;De Payen-Payne, French Idioms and Proverbs; grammar, composition, &c.; Berthon, Specimens of Modern French Verse. Mathematics —Arithmetic, the whole subject; algebra, to permutations and combinations, inclusive; geometry, Euclid, Books Ito VII (Baker and Bourne); trigonometry, to Junior University Scholarship standard. Science—Botany, the morphology and physiology of the botanical types specified in the Junior Scholarship schedule; physics, as defined in the Junior Scholarship schedule. Lowest. —English —Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream ; Literary Reading and Composition ; Nesfield's Aids to Study and Composition of English. Geography, Regional (Europe) ; history, Warner, Brief Survey of English History. French -Siepmann, Part I, conversation and regular verbs. Latin Longmans, Part I; Sonnenschein, Ora Maritima. Mathematics —Arithmetic, fractions, decimals, practice, ratio, proportion, areas, proportionate division, and percentages ; algebra, Hall and Knight, to simultaneous equations, graphs ; Euclid, Barnard and Child, twenty propositions, experimental work. Science —Botany —Laurie's Introduction to Botany and Elementary Botany, Chapters Ito 7. Shorthand, Pitman's Short Course. Book-keeping, Bolton's Business Book-keeping. GORE HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. J. Hunter, M.A. ; Mr. J. E. Strachan, M.A. ; Mr. J. H. Murdoch, M.A. ; Mr. ('. McCarthy, 8.A.; Miss H. P. Korse, M.A.; Miss M. J. Kennedy; Mr. J. McGregor. Report op the Board of Governors. The Board has to report that at the beginning of 1913 the roll number was 160, and that the average roll for the year was 150. For the first two terms the staff was the same as that of the 1912 session. At the end of the second term Mr. W. T. Foster, M.A., first male assistant, resigned, and left for England, where he intends to prosecute his studies still further. He carried away with him the best wishes of all those with whom he has been associated in the school. The Board decided to promote Mr. J. E. Strachan, M.A., to the position of Deputy Rector and science master, and appointed Mr. J. H. Murdoch, M.A., of Napier Boys' High School, as language master. The Board has to express its great satisfaction with the work of the staff, and also of the pupils. The Board is glad to be able to report that an agricultural course was instituted during the year. Although the numbers were small splendid work has been done. After having completed the draining, levelling, and grassing of the playing-field and the asphalting of the assembly-ground, the disastrous flood of March made it quite impossible to use the field for sports purposes, and necessitated the expenditure of a considerable sum of money to make good the damage done. Fortunately, the water did not enter the school to any depth, and so practically no damage was done to the buildings. All dividing fences, however, were swept away.

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