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OHRISTCHURCH BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. Staff. Mr. C. E. Bevan-Brovm. ii.A. ; Mr. B. K. S. Lawrenoe, B.A. : Mr. U. Walton, 15.A. ; Mr. K. M. Lainji, M.A.' B.Se. ; Mr. A. Merton ; Mr. T. H. Jaokson, B.A. ; Mr. T. W. Cane, M.A. ; Mr. R. J. Thompson, B.A. : Mr. \V. Witt' M.A.; Mr. J. Cook; Mr. L. Q. Whitehead ; Captain Farthing; Menu. Malaqain j Mr. T. S. Tankard; Mise Digby. 1. Report of Headmaster. The school roll at the end of the year was 212, inoluding 20 in the preparatory class. In December, 1910, the school had in candidates for Junior University Scholarships. 25 for Matriculation, 39 for Education Board, junior Civil Service, or Senior Free Place Examinations : thus 74 boys of the upper school have reoently been sitting for external examinations. The results of the outside examinations in December last were that of 9 candidates. 4 won Senior National Scholarships and were also awarded Gammack Scholarships by the Board of Education. The last-named body, however, intend in future to prohibit the holders of any other scholarship from holding a Gammack Scholarship. Two boys also obtained places on the credit list. Two boys won Senior {Education Board Scholarships, and 34 out of 42 candidates passed the Junior Civil or Senior Free Place Examinations. Of 27 candidates for Matriculation, 15 boys passed, including 4 for Medical Preliminary, and 1 for Engineering Preliminary. The institution of form prefects has been good, and we hope to see the system developed. The cadet corps numbers 180, and. has had a successful camp. The school workshop has been added to, and will now accommodate the full number of 24. In science many boys have taken pride in their note-books and practical work. There has been a successful life-saving class and 30 certificates have been awarded. Among distinctions won by old boys are the following : H. G. Denham. M.Sc., the holder of an 1851 Exhibition Science Scholarship, obtained the degree of D.He, at Liverpool, and of Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg. L. H. Harrison obtained his M.Sc, with tirst-class honours, at Manchester University. C. M. Stubbs obtained his M.A. here, with double first-class honours in mathematics and chemistry; and also the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship. D. B. Macleod obtained his M.A. with firstclass honours in chemistry. Four won College exhibitions, and H. Rands the Sir George Grey Scholarship. Mr. W. B. Robinson, at Guy's Hospital, London, distinguished himself at the Intermediate for the London degree in medicine, and the Primary Fellowship Examination of the Royal College of Surgeons. Two other old boys, after sitting for degrees here, are proceeding to Cambridge. Mr. Sidney Clark, after useful work here, resigned in April to take up an appointment at Rangiora High School. He has been succeeded in the preparatory class by Mr. L. G. Whitehead. Mr. A. Watt has resigned in order to go to France. He has been an able and successful master. Mr. T. Cane has been appointed assistant in Latin and English at Canterbury College, but will retain his important classes in 1911. The Headmaster will be absent on leave in 1911, and Mr. B. K. S. Lawrence will be acting headmaster. There were 82 junior and 48 Senior Free Place holders in 1910. C. E. Bevan-Brown. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest. —Latin—Livy, Book XXII (Blackie's Illustrated Classics) without Vocabulary. Horace, Selections, Satires, and Epistles (Macmillan's Elementary Classics) ; Virgil, Georgic IV (Macmillan), Myths and Legends of Ancient Rome ; Bradley's Arnold ; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose ; Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer ; Gepp and Haigh's Latin Dictionary ; Robinson's First History of the Romans ; Rivington's Class Book of Latin, Unseen, Book VII; Everyman's Library Atlas of Ancient Geography. English—Richard II (Pitt Press) ; The Squire's Tale, Chaucer (Macmillan) ; Lamb's Schooldays and other Essays (Blackie) ; Bacon's Essays (Blackie) ; Froissart's Chronicle, Vol. 11, Reign of Richard II (Blackie) ; Palgrave's Golden Treasury ; Nesfield's Aids to the Study and Composition of English ; Nesfield's Historical English; English Literature, Laing (Collins and Sons). French —Le Cid, Corneille (Macmillan). Advanced French Composition, Duhamel (Rivington's) ; Tartarin de Tarascon (Siepinann) ; Longmans' Advanced French Unseen (Bertenshaw) ; French Grammar, Moriarty (SoiM ). Mathematics- -Borchardt and Perrott's Trigonometry ; Baker and Bourne's Algebra (Bell) ; Elements of Mechanics of Solids and Fluids (Arnold) ; Hall and Stevens's School Geometry, Parts Ito VI (Macmillan) ; Hogben's Trigonometry Tables; Pendlebury's Arithmetic; Ward's Trigonometry Papers (Bell and Sons). Science—Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, theoretical; Synopsis of Non-metallic Chemistry, Briggs (University Tutorial Series). Gymnastics. Lowest. —Latin —Collar and Daniell's Beginner's Latin Book ; Shorter Latin Primer (for revision oi verbs). English —Deeds that Won the Empire (first series) ; Lyra Heroica (The Revenge, &c.) ; Nesfield's Outlines ; parsing note* ; dictation, composition, parsing, analysis (four forms of predicate and easy subordinate clauses) ; also one of 6d. editions in Lower IV list to be read at home per term. History- —First Book of British History (Tout); Longmans' Historical Series for Schools, Book I. Geography—Southern Cross Series, Geography, Standard VI. French —Siepmann's First French Course. Mathematics —Pendlebury's New School Arithmetic (Bell and Sons) ; Hall and Stevens's School Geometry, Parts I and 11., with lessons in experimental and practical geometry. Art — Same as Lower 111, but more advanced, and with addition of elementary model-drawing. Writing. Gymnasium. Siugiug- -Novello's School Songs.