small services; there is a special call for the exercise of forbearance and unselfishness. Sacrifices of personal ease and comfort for the general good, the little courtesies and attentions by which the man of honour and of real refinement is always distinguished, will be of especial value here; while all hard, rigid, and unaccommodating dispositions will do more mischief here than elsewhere, will bring more discomfort on their possessors, and more discredit on others. There is, therefore, a great advantage to be gained while you are living in this community, of which I trust you will try to avail yourselves. Watch those of your fellow-students who are most loved and respected by the rest. Notice what it is that gives them their position. You will find that such persons are not only good and systematics tudents, but that there is a frank bearing, a candour, and a courtesy, an instinctive shrinking from meanness, and a willingness to oblige others—a spirit like that of the old chivalrous knight, who said he felt a stain like a wound; and that with all this there is a true self-respect, and yet a disposition which causes him to think of the comfort and the feelings of others always before his own. When you see this and admire it, as I hope you will have occasion to do in many cases, remember that there is nothing in it unattainable by any of you. It may be attained by watchfulness, by imitation, by constantly holding the temper in check, and, above all, by feeling that the thing is worth attaining, and by constantly striving after it. "In all this I have not spoken of what may seem to some of you the prominent matter which interests you in coming here. I mean the examinations which you will have to pass. You have been admitted here in consequence of success at an examination. You are looking forward to future examinations of the same character, conducted by printed papers, and requiring answers of a technical kind on paper. Now, I have no doubt that this form of testing a student's work is, on the whole, the soundest and the fairest. But I must frankly tell you that it seems to me to involve some dangers to those who are so tested. A student is apt to estimate himself solely by the rank he acquires in a class-list; to consider his training as mainly designed to enable him to pass an examination. Now, of course, one of the things we hope to do here is to qualify you to pass the examination, but that is not the main or chief object. The chief object is to make you understand the subjects which we teach thoroughly and soundly, and to enable you to keep a school well. Now, if any student looks on all his lessons solely with an eye to the use he hopes to make of it in examination papers, he takes a very low and mean view of his studies. I always know that the man who makes the examination the primary object of his thoughts is a merely mechanical student. He is for ever thinking how to tabu. late, how to condense, and how to make his knowledge look well on paper. Now, these things, though important, are only, after all, of secondary importance. Your first duties are to yourselves in this matter: you want to make certain knowledge yours: you want to grasp it thoroughly, to look at it fairly, to comprehend it systematically, and to connect it logically with whatever other knowledge you possess. Think of this first, and of the examination last. Professor De Morgan used to tell his students, 'Take care of everything but the examination, and let the examination take care of itself. I believe that the advice was good. All my own experience confirms it. The man who puts the examination first, seldom succeeds even in that. The best student is he who is more concerned to possess knowledge than to get credit for possessing it. He is the man who passes the best examinations. Do not let us mistake means for ends. The end of all study is our own cultivation; our own growth in thoughtfulness, in strength, in self-knowledge, in wisdom. All mere success in examinations, all certificates, all honours, are but means to this. Let us keep the ultimate and great aims of life in view, and then all the lesser and lower aims will keep their due place. "And this is, in fact, the last thought which I wish to urge upon your attention. Remember that all the little details of conduct and of study here, are parts of a great and comprehensive scheme; that you, though units only, are parts of a vast machinery, the object of which is nothing less than the education of the whole British people, and that that object is one of the noblest in which you could be engaged. You have chosen, deliberately, I hope, a profession in which it is indispensable that you should aim high, and of which it is important that you should entertain high and worthy conceptions. Think what a power is possessed by one who can influence the minds and characters of a large number of little children. Consider how wonderfully any right intellectual or religious influence you may possess will propagate itself in their minds, and those of others. Remember that while mechanics and traders, and even men in many professions, are dealing with the bodies of men and with their mere material interests, you undertake to deal with mind, the noblest and the highest of God's works. Consider how great an honour it is to be entrusted with such material to work on, and such a task to fulfil. Consider, too, what high gifts, what perseverance, what skill, what judgment, are needed in order to discharge this duty well. Think, also, of the reward which always awaits a successful and honoured teacher—of the delight which it affords to see a learner's eye sparkle with sympathy and interest, as he receives some new truthof the honour and respect you may win-of the good which is done in a hundred ways in which you never know-of the strength and insight imparted to many minds of whom you never hear again. I believe that if you try to impress yourselves with these things, you will feel that ours is a profession in which it is essentially necessary to aim high, and which demands and rewards the devotion of the best powers and faculty which we possess. "Perhaps it may seem to some of you rather a steep descent from such considerations, to come to time-tables, and lessons, and the minute rules and regulations to which you will find yourselves required to conform. But it is only by the help of large principles that we can ever hope to understand small details. It is in doing little things well that we can best show our appreciation of great ones. It is only he who is faithful over a few things who is made ruler over many things, and who enters at last into the joy of his Lord." CLASS LIST OF STUDENTS IN NORMAL SCHOOLS, AND TEACHERS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. Examined before Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools at Christmas, 1859. The letter (G or W) after a Candidate's name indicates that he has passed an examination in Gaelic or Welsh, sufficient to entitle him to a grant of £5 per annum, over and above the usual augmentation, so long as he is employed in a school of which Her Majesty's Inspector certifies that it is one in which a knowledge of Gaelic or Welsh is needful in the Teacher. The letter (D) after a Student's or Teacher's name, indicates that he has obtained a memorandum of competency as a Teacher of Drawing (Minute of February 24, 1857.) A prize for proficiency in Drawing has been awarded to every Candidate to whose name an asterisk (*) is prefixed. BOROUGH ROAD NORMAL COLLEGE. The Sixty-five MALE STUDENTS who presented themselves passed in the following The following is the list of the Students who passed the Examination .— The Fifty-eight FEMALE CANDIDATES who presented themselves passed in the LIST OF QUEEN'S SCHOLARS (IN ORDER OF MERIT.) I. MALES. First Class Scholarship of £23, with a personal Allowance of £4. NOTE-The names printed in italics are those of Candidates who, not having been Pupil Teachers, are admitted to compete for Scholarships under the Minute of 2 June, 1856. Second Class Scholarship of £23, with no personal Allowance. Munns, William H...Rotherhithe Midway-pl.B.S. .Manchester, Ancoats, Ly- Smith, Thomas ...... Camberwell, Crawford-st. S. Davis, Philip H. ......Oidland Common B. S. Clark, Edward J.......Gravesend B. S. Wilson, Robert Boyd, Hugh .Coalbrooke Dale Co.'s Pool Old Dalby B. S. .Hull, Holderness Ward B.S. Smith, Ebenezer ...... Bishop, Frederick ...Great Yarmouth B. S. First Class Scholarship of £17, with a personal Allowance of £3. Jarratt, Fanny.........Leicester, Hill-street B. S. Aldham, Ann .........Nottingham, High Pave- Burton, Emily......... Dunmow B. S. Brown, Fanny .........Bethnal-grn., Abbey-st. B.S. Laverach, Mary......Leeds, Basinghall-streetB.S. Hildreth, Sarah H....Darlington, Bridge-st. B. S. Hurst, Emily ...Bristol, Lewins Mead B. S. Second Class Scholarship of £17.—No personal Allowance. WE have pleasure in receiving from time to time evidences of the pains which are being taken in different parts of the country, by the managers and teachers of British Schools, to keep up an interest in the welfare of the young people who have left school. In some cases, evening classes have been formed with the best results. In others, periodical or occasional meetings for social intercourse have been held; while here and there a little society, composed of the old pupils of a school, has organised itself into a book-club, a reading society, a music or a discussion class. One of the most striking experiments of this kind is that which has now been successfully tried for several years in connexion with the British School at Georgestreet, Lambeth. A society has been formed under the title of the "Old Schoolfellows' Fraternity." It has existed nine years, in the form of a class for mutual improvement, as well as a medium for social intercourse. Its meetings have been characterised by great warmth and kindliness, and by a remarkable tone of esteem and respect towards Mr. Horrocks, who has been for many years the honoured and successful teacher of the school. The growth of this little "fraternity," from very humble beginnings, into what bids fair to prove a permanent and most useful society, is thus well described in the report read by the secretary at the meeting held in January last : "We at first limited our ranks to those who had held the place of monitor in the school; but as we grew we included all whom we could trace as having passed creditably at least twelve months as scholars. Our basis, from the commencement in 1851, has been that spirit of fellowship and good-feeling existing, we believe, in a peculiar degree among those who received their education here,-added to which, a universal feeling of respect and affection towards our former teacher, which has been no small motive to our unity. Our object has been from the beginning, and still is, to stimulate each other in intellectual pursuits, by emulation, to draw forth and put in action those latent powers of the mind in our members, of which even their possessors may be unaware-and many we know have to look back to a first effort made in our society as the commencement of larger efforts and greater results. "Our members have taken various courses, in accordance with their own tastes or talents. Some have collected materials with pains, stringing facts together, drawing inferences and giving us the result in the form of essay or lecture. Some have given readings or recitations of good authors; others have exhibited and explained the processes of their several trades, or brought curious prints and pictures. Some |