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same school, he has had more time for the study of Arithmetic, Algebra, and Euclid. Merton failed in his Latin construing, having done the same passage a year or two ago, and forgotten it.

Dawson also deserves to be highly commended for having gained so high a number of marks, and, being a scholar of 1868 and a very young boy—2½ years younger than Merton, senior—for having taken equal marks with the latter, a scholar of 1866. He excels all the scholars in his knowledge of Geography and of Ancient and Modern History. Dawson attends the High School; he is in advance of his three seniors of 1867—Caygill, Triggs, and Jennings, who attend the College—in Arithmetic, Algebra, and Euclid, but is very deficient in Bible Knowledge, and his papers contain many shocking blunders in Spelling, although his spelling exercise in difficult words was tolerably good. The mistakes in his papers indicate the necessity of a rigid as well as regular supervision and correction of his written exercises. Dawson’s knowledge of Greek is very imperfect; he has only recently commenced the subject, but has already hurried on too far without attention to accuracy.

Triggs’ marks—762—are 351 less than Caygill’s of the same year, and 801 less than Dawson’s of a lower year. Triggs has done well in Latin, and fairly in Greek, having plenty of time for the Latin, and not requiring much for his Greek; he has taken about the same number as Caygill, who required the time for his Greek paper. The term of Triggs’ scholarship has nearly come to an end, but he states that he has only just commenced Algebra and Euclid. His Arithmetic and other attainments, Latin and Greek excepted, are generally either moderate or inferior.

Jennings stands in nearly the same position as Triggs of the same year; he is a young and rather delicate boy. He has done well in Latin, fairly in Greek, well in Geography; has scarcely made any progress in Arithmetic since he has been at the College; is very deficient in Bible Knowledge, and has a moderate or inferior knowledge of the other subjects. His hand writing and the neatness of his papers are highly commendable.

The position of Bean, Senior, second in his year is satisfactory; his Latin is his best subject; his Arithmetic is also good, but he is not much further in it than when he went to the College about twelve months ago; his other attainments are fair.

Merton Junior has, on the whole, done fairly well, but his Latin is very inferior to that of the other boys of the same year; his hand writing and the neatness of his papers are also somewhat inferior to those of the other scholars at the College.

Herbert’s number of marks—606—is very creditable. He is remarkably accurate and very conscientious, not attempting to guess any of the answers. He is nearly, i.e. excepting Wilkinson, the most accurate speller among the scholars examined, having only made four mistakes, of which he had himself corrected one. He has been very carefully and successfully taught, and is a boy of superior promise. He has made but little progress in Arithmetic, having only attempted one question, but that he worked accurately.

Bird has on the whole, done fairly well, but is very deficient in Bible Knowledge, and has fallen off very much in Writing and neatness.

Bean Junior has also done fairly well; he has made great strides in Latin, far beyond his progress in other subjects; his Arithmetic has been at a standstill.

Parson’s scholarship appears to have been very unprofitable to him, with the exception that his papers are remarkably neat and well written. He has done tolerably well in English Grammar, Arithmetic, and Geography, but is deficient in every other subject. It is quite probable that his long illness about two years ago may have affected his memory, and that great allowance may be made for him on this account.