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'ISEMENTS. EXPENDITURE OF THE NELSON December 31st, 1864. Expenditure. £ s. d. £ s. d. oans granted 450 0 0 ive3tment account .». 250 0 0 iterest paid 89 12 1 fceward's& Matron's salary 170 0 0 oarding expenses 1179 16 1 [aster's salaries 1166 18 0 [edical attendance 4 3 0 urniture 52 18 1 ooks 202 12 8 ollege grounds 26 9 3 nionßankoverdraft repaid 952 11 8 .epairs 56 9 0 rinting and stationery ... 132 410 isurance 80 10 0 uditors 6 6 0 ccounts 20 0 O olicitor 6 6 O Ixchange on drafts 1 6 10 icidentals 11 5 1 ostage 0 19 3 ew rents 3 12 O teward's account 40 O 2 aluation (town acre) 2 2 0 ecretary'a salary 150 0 0 cholarships 100 0 0 lash on hand Dec. 31, 1864 57 3 6 £3560 13 10 1652 11 8 iinined the above Accounts, and compared ), and find them correct. W. C• Hodgson, j Auditorg _ Robt. Pollock, j lES OF THE NELSON COLLEGE' BEB, 1864. Liabilities. £ s. d. £ s. d. Joan from Trustees of Trust Funds 2000 0 0 Scholarships— Richmond 300 0 0 Newcome 300 0 0 Fell 200 0 0 800 0 0 Lmount owing 31st Dec, 1864 263 3 6 £3063 3 6 £23,700 os. Od. Mr School Endowment) ... £22,880 193. 2d. ime person; or imply that the two processes innot go en together, but are quite incomatible. 'Tlie question is really only one of degree lat is, of the relative time and attention to, c given to each class of studies ; for we cannot, as i some great English schools, confine ourselves to ur own special work, and utterly ignore or refuse to .ipply all previous deficiencies. The plan of the bllege, as now arranged, seems to me the best comromise at present attainable. It includes botli an Fpper and Lower School. Into the Lower School oys are admitted at 9 years of age who can read ri'th fluency, can write and spell tolerably, and are cquainted with the first four rules of simple arithletic. They remain in it until they have acquired a lir knowledge of common Geography, _ and English frammar, with the rudiments of Latin, for which Eenry's 'First Book and Kennedy's Primer are their 3xt books ; and have mastered the compound rules f Arithmetic. They also read English History, ractice writing, and spell from dictation. They arc lien qualified to enter the Upper School. Here the fork is classified under three heads, viz.: (1) Lanuages, Latin, Greek, and French ; (2) Mathematics, iz.° Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry ; and (3) English Grammar and Composition, Physical Gco■raphy, and History, Sacred, Ancient, find Modern, theoretically, an equal portion of time and attention i given to each of these three branches 5 practically, : varies according to the class. I will offer a few remarks on each class in turn. In the third form the first, 50 pages of Valpy's jatin Delectus are read, and the Latin Syntax ; Icnry's First Book being continued for exercises, rhich are corrected in class ; after which an earlier jsson is read off at sight; Latin into English, and English into Latin. This method of translating Engsh into Latin at sight, I have found so useful, that have adopted it in all the classes. It tests progress, ; keeps up the recollection of what has been learnt, nd calls for readiness in applying it. It is also a jsson which excites much interest and emulation, 'he fourth form reads the latter part of Yalpy's De;ctus; the parsing of words, as in the third form, radually giving way to the grammar of sentences ; 1 aid of this JMorell's English Grammar and Exerises are very useful, and give the means of comaring aud contrasting the two languages. Ellis' jfitiu. DExercises arc used, the rules of grammar being ere more systematically exemplified than in Henry's 'irst Book. In this form the elements of Greek arc mght for about three quarters of an hour twice a 'eek, principally to accustom the scholars to the rreek characters, preparatory to moving into the fifth jrm, and show by comparison how much help they lay derive in learning the elements from their revious knowledge of Latin. Both the third and iurth form read General History, and are practised in lental Arithmetic together; General Arithmetic, the rst principles of Geometry and Algebra, English rrammar, Dictation, Writing, and English History eing taught by the Rev. C. L. Maclean. In the fth°and sixth forms, one prose and one poetical Latin uthor are read alternately, viz.: in the fifth form, tesar and Virgil, and sometimes Livy; in the sixth, Jicero and Horace. The 2nd and 3rd parts of Ellis' Exercises are also used in the manner I have Iready explained. In Greek the fifth form reads ralpy's Delectus, combined with Jacob's Elementary rrammar and Arnold's First Book ; the sixth reads lie "Analecta Minora." Two scholars, who had egun to read Homer very fairly, have left since my Ist Report. In English their knowledge of Latin and Greek has nabled both the upper classes to take up the study f English Derivations. They have also begun in the x:th form the practice of making paraphrases and bstracts; and both forms have read carefully nrough one of Shakespeare's plays more than once. )uring the last half-year they have been reading rrecian History with the fifth form. They also write ut a free translation into English of each lesson in licero, which is read and corrected in class. Every londay, whilst the third and fourth forms are exmined by the Rev. Mr. Maclean in Scripture History, tie two upper forms read with me a chapter in the h-eek New Testament, prepared beforehand by comaring it with the English version; a practice strongly scommended by Locke, and which as an adjunct to lore systematic teaching, has many advantages. Fnder the Rev. C. L. Maclean, their instruction at be same time goes on in Algebra, Geometry, French, nd Physical Geography. With two or three exsptionß, all the scholars learn Drawing, specimens of rhich I have laid before the Governors; and many aye shown ataste for Music, and formed a little jciety for its cultivation, which I have been glad to acourage I have given this short account of the College work, ecause I believe it is very little known, and is there>re liable to be misunderstood, both aa to its details