Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Commissioners some years ago having made a report to Parliament based almost solely on those six or seven well known and aristocratic schools, which still clung to the old classical system long after most important and liberal reforms had been introduced into the great body of the "Grammar" or endowed schools of the country, such as Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield, Durham, Cheltinham, anni multis Allis, hundreds in fact, in which for more than 30 years a liberal scientific, English and modern education has not only been combined with the classical, but made to a considerable extent imperative upon all pupils from...
...better place than that of car conductor, and as a car conductor it is no help to him. He can pull the bell to stop and start the car, and can make change no more skillfully than if his head had never ached over a Latin grammar or he had never read a French novel. And yet it would not be advisable to argue from this that all our colleges should be shut...
...correctly) reported convey decidedly erroneous ideas, of which the interest of your readers require the correction. It is quite true that both several of the more celebrated "public schools" of England, e. g., Winchesher, Eton, Winchester, Merchant Taylors' (London), Westminster, and also a very large number of "public" or "grammar" schools (founded three hundred years ago for teaching Latin grammar as the necessary key to all higher education in the revival period) were, by their founders' wills connected with, or placed under the supervision of certain colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, and scholarships and exhibitions at these colleges were endowed...
...John's College, eight scholarships are appropriated to Hereford Grammar School, five to Manchester, five to Marlborough, and the examination is made at the schools by Cambridge examiners. In like manner at Oxford, at New College, six scholarships each year of L80 a year are secured to Winchester School at Balliol, ten "Snell" scholarships are given annually to Glasgow University ; at Christ's Church, three each year to Westminister ; at St. John's, fifteen are awarded to Merchant Taylors' School (London) after open examination by Oxford examiners at the school. I could mention many more, but this may suffice...
...regard to the other passage associating "aristocratic" with this school and college system, let me say-as I can without contradiction-the "public" or "grammar" schools of England, not twelve merely, but, large and small, more than 200, and the scholarships at the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, are the main popular or democratic safeguards of the social system of the country. They have been the means of enabling, for three hundred years, many sons of humble tradesmen, clerks and farmers to rise to the highest offices in church and state. not a few of England's Archbishops and Lord...