M'GLASHAN COLLEGE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18544, 3 May 1922, Page 9

M'GLASHAN COLLEGE

GOVERNOR’S ANNUAL REPORT. Following is the summary of ■ the annual report of the Board of Governors of the John jM‘Glaahan College, as submitted to the Dunedin Presbytery yesterday: The year 1921 was the most successful the college has yet experienced. The pupils in the preparatory school, numbering over 20, made excellent progress, and all qualified for promotion at the end' of their year’s -work. The dux was John White. The lower school. Standards 111 to VI, numbered over 50 pupils. The dux was E. Bloomfield.; _ The number of pupils that passed the inspector’s examination (13 out of 17) was very creditable indeed to the teachers and to the school. It is certainly by far the best result yet obtained in any one year from the primary school and should completely establish the confidence, of parents in the ability of the college to teach not less effectively than the public schools, notwithstanding the facts that the college devoted two, and a-half hours per week of school time to religious teaching, and that the sessions were three weeks shorter in the year than those of the publio primary schools. The secondary schoolammbered~nearTy 4A pupils. The dux-was B. B. Stewart. There were three partial passes at matriculation, five passes at public service, and two at intermediate. Ten boys sat for matriculation and publio service, and only two failed. _ This again was easily the best result obtained so far by the school. Out of a school of 113 pupils, including the preparatory division, a total of 23 passes, including the three partial passes at matriculation, was obtained at external examinations conducted by the Otago ..Education Board inspectors, the Education Department, and the University Senate. The joint testimony of the inspector’s report last August, and of these examinations, as to the efficiency of the school, u c 3 6", a - S r ? at source, of- 1 satisfaction to the board. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the conscientious work of the staff, without which these results could not have been • obtained. Ou the physical side of the school’s work tne report chronicles events in cricket, football, terinis, fives, swimming, boxing, and athletic sports,'..mentioning the success achieve by E. B. Stewart in representative , football and athletics. The report also touches cm the social life of the boarding school, giving praise to the matron and her staff to the religious training of the pupils, to the formation of an Did Collegians’ Assooiation, to the resignations of Mr Hancox and Mr Kinmont, to Jhe splendid progress made by Miss O’Connor with the science class, and to the excellent work of the new resident master, Mr A. J. Deaker. The Principal, in the report, expressed the opinion that the falling off in enrolments was due to the financial depression and that, with the return of better times and the maintenance of the high standards of work achieved last year, they might expect the college not only to recover its lost ground, but also to secure a sufficiently increased enrolment to place it in a position of greater financial stability. The following were recommended for reappointment to the board:—Rev W Trotter, R ev . Dr Cameron, Rev. J. Kilpatrick, Professor Waters, Messrs T. C. Ross, J M George, and C. G. White. in ill r JP°- rt C T® befcre the Presbytery th ng , sta ?« s of meeting when on ? *5 members present, intile, moderator and the dork. The P ThT'riT tS board were confirmed, could n!u J -. Kilpatrick said the college condition* Th S ' b ? co u ntln . u f m its present condition. The church might be faced with f"* He C n^ r T tanCe Su that would be alarm-' bifnmS m l mh Sf s to be watchful in border!. * * h b ° ard 3 notice an y likel y A TRAM CONDUCTOR’S LAPSE TO THE, BDITOE. romni;Tn^ fe ' W weeks * back a correspondent complained in your columns about a tram conductor who had received a penny fare without issuing a ticket in exchange. Evidently the matter was reported to the tramway management. I have reason to believe that the non-issue of a ticket was an isolated instance, and due to an oversight on the part of the conductor. The tramway management, however, in view of the pubhcity given the matter, dispensed with the mans services. It may now interest the correspondent to know that a man with a wife in poor health (she has just returned from a .nursing home) and with four young children, one of whom is a sick baby a few weeks old. has, as a consequence of the complaint, been thrown out of employment. Here is an opportunity for virtuous guardians of the ratepayers’ pennies to go to the assistance of a sister in distress.—l am, etc., Watching. Dunedin, May 2.