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Examination Results. At Ibe annual examinations in 1913 two pupils passed the Junior University Scholarship Examination with credit and one gained Matriculation. In the Matriculation Examination six passed, four of whom passed in Solicitors' General Knowledge and one in the Medical Preliminary ; three were granted partial passes. Thirteen pupils passed in the examination for Senior Board Scholarships, six of them being awarded scholarships of an annual value of £10 each. Besides these, eleven passed the Public Service Examination, two of them with credit:, sixteen gained Senior Free Places on recommendation and seven by examination. E. H. Manx, Chairman. W. Moegan, Secretary. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Highest.- English Neslield, Past and Present; Dalgleish, Higher Grade English; Chaucer, -Prologue; Shakespeare, Macbeth, Henry IV, Henry V; Swift, Battle of the Books; Pope, Essay on Criticism; Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 11. Latin—Arnold's Latin Prose and Composition; nibblethwaite's Latin Examination-papers ; Watt and Hayes's selections from Latin Authors ; Horace, Odes, I ; Virgil, iEneid, VI and IX : King, Cicero's Letters ; The Students' Rome ; Wilkins's Roman Antiquities. French—Siepmann's French Course, Part III; Wellington College French Grammar; Scribi, Le Verre d'Eau. Mathematics Geometry, Hall and Stevens, I-VI ; trigonometry, Hall and Knight; algebra, Baker and Knight; arithmetic, miscellaneous. Science—Heat, Scarlett's School Course in Heat; ' mechanics, Tutorial Statics ; Dynamics and Hydrostatics. Geography- No textbook ; to Junior University Scholarship standard. History — No text-book ;to Junior University Scholarship standard. Lowest- -English- Nesfield's Outline of English Grammar and Junior Course of English Composition ; Marsh's Literary Reader and Composition, Senior Course ; Goldsmith, Traveller. LatinLongmans' Course, Part I; Seala: Prinue. French—Siepmann's French Course, Part ] ; Hogben's Methode Naturelle. Mathematics- Arithmetic, Pendlebury and Robinson's Junior Arithmetic ; algebra, Baker and Bourne, Part I; geometry, Hall and Stevens, Books I and IT. Geography— Longmans', No. V. History—Townsend Warner, A Brief Survey of British History. Science— Elementary Physical Science ; Furneaux, Elementary Human Physioiogy. Book-keeping—Thornton's First Lessons. NAPIER BOYS' AND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOLS. Staff. Hoys School. —Mr. F. Heaton, M.A., B.So. ; Mr. E. W. Andrews, B.A. ; Mr. W. Kerr, 15.A. ; Mr. H. .11. Ward ; Mr. K. G. Eraser, M.A.; Mr. H. V. Phillips; Mr. R. M. Mointyre. Girls' School—Miss V. M. Greig, M.A., B.So. ; Miss C. R. Kirk, B.A. ; Miss J. (). Gillies ; Miss L. Suckling, M.A. ; Miss L, Hunt, B.A. ; Miss D. Evans ; Miss P. Duncan ; Miss I. Sidey ; Miss J. 0. Gillies ; Miss E. H. Leo. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' School. Highest. —Mathematics—Geometry, Godfrey and Siddons ; Algebra, Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra ; trignonometry, Pendlebury. Latin—Longmans' Latin Course, Part III ; Sallust, Catiline ; Bennett's Selections from Virgil; Livy, Book XXIV; Sargent's Latin Prose Selections ; Macmillan's Latin Grammar ; Anderson's Latin Unseens. English—Mason's English Grammar (Senior); composition ; Shakespeare, Henry IV, Parts I and 11. French —Weekley's French Course and Public School French Grammar ; Aupole en Vallon ; French composition. History—Tout and Powell's English History, 1688-1837. Geography —Longmans' Geography, Books II and V; Marshall's Geography of New Zealand. Science—Gregory and Hadley, Heat and Light; Draper, Heat; Blomfield and Jones's Mechanics. Lowed. —Mathematics—Geometry, Godfrey and Siddons, Part I, Book I; algebra, Baker and Bourne, pp. 1-120 ; arithmetic, Pendlebury's Shilling. Latin—Longman's Latin Course ; Beresford, First Latin Reader. English—-Marsh, Preparatory Reading and Composition ; Edgar, Treasury of Verse; Fitchett, Fights for the Flag; Mason's Junior English Grammar. History—Longmans' Historical Series, Book 11. Geography—Southern Cross Geographical Readers; Imperial Geography. Girls' School. Highest. — English - Nesfield's Past and Present; Shakespeare, As You Like It, part of Henry VIII; passages selected Iroin other plays* The Tennyson Epoch ; Dickens, Tale of Two Cities. Arithmetic—Pendlebury, New School Arithmetic. Algebra—Baker and Bourne, Part I. Geometry— Godfrey and Siddons, Books 1 to IV. Geography—Gill's Imperial Geography, selected parts ; The World in Outline. French—Weekley's French Course, p.p 1-253; proses; Longmans' Elementary French Unseens, pp. 1-28; Racine, Athalie, pp. 1-11 ; Chateaubriand, Voyage en Grece ; Boi'elle's French Poetry, pp. 23-131 ; phonetics ; Vacqueray, Examination-papers. Natural Science—Evans's Botany for Beginners; Notes on Native Plants; Science of Common Life; Simmons and Stenhouse, pp. 1485. History- Warner, Survey of British History; Innes's History, 1689 to 1900. Latin—Caesar, Gallic War, Book II ; Virgil, iEneid, Book I; Longmans' Elementary Latin Course, Part II to end of book ; Allen's Latin Grammar ; Discernenda Latina ; sight Latin prose, and sight translation into English ; Scalse Tertise. Lowest. —English—Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar and Composition, pp. 1-70 ; general analysis and parsing ; essays ; reading ; J. Logic Robertson's English Prose, Part II; Scott, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Jane Austen, Washington Irving, Thackeray, Mrs. Stowe, Dickens, George

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