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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 35, 28 August 1902, Page 7

In connection with the recent junior university examinations (says the Sydney Freeman* Journal), it is satisfactory to note that our Catholic schools occupy a responsible position in the list of passes. In this list, the place of honor has fallen to the lot of our oldest Catholic school— St. Mary's High school, oonduoted by the Mariit Brothers. The Director of the school— Brother Ephrem— sent up 18 boys, all of whem passed, and two of their number Master Herbert Vaughan and Master Patriok Sarsfield McMahon! won the university medals for geometry and inorganic chemistry respectively. The next highest number of passes from any Catholic school was 10, and the next highest number from any of the great public schools, Forth street exoepted, was nine, bo that St. Mary's High school has secured a position of marked distinction which it g many friends and the friends of Catholic education generally may well be proud of. St. Mary's High school has an enrolment of only 140 boys, whose ages range from seven years upwards. A pass list of 13 per cent, of the enrolment taken in conjunction with the winning of two medals is a splendid achievement. This will be more readily seen by a further comparison with the results. A great school, say, like Forth street, where they have a special tteaoher for each subject, where the pupils are practically selected and where the best efforts of the Publio Instruction Department are put forward to secure junior passes : Forth street, with an enrolment of about 2000 in the primary departments passed 80 pupils or four per cent, of the enrolment. In the matter of junior passes St. Mary's High school is relatively doing more than three times the work of Forth street.