Recess studies . ns Hospital to maintain a Primary FeedingSchool, a Superior Primary School, and a High CommercialSchool for picked boys from Heriots Elementary CommercialSchool; also to set apart billet-allowances, exhibitions, bur-saries, and allowances for outfit. Donaldsons Hospital to maintain a Primary FeedingSchool, a Superior Primary School, and a great Trade School,with the addition of evening classes for old pupils and adults ;also to set apart billet-allowances, exhibitions, bursaries, andapprentice-fees for meritorious students. We suppose all the hospitals to agree in the one poin
Recess studies . ns Hospital to maintain a Primary FeedingSchool, a Superior Primary School, and a High CommercialSchool for picked boys from Heriots Elementary CommercialSchool; also to set apart billet-allowances, exhibitions, bur-saries, and allowances for outfit. Donaldsons Hospital to maintain a Primary FeedingSchool, a Superior Primary School, and a great Trade School,with the addition of evening classes for old pupils and adults ;also to set apart billet-allowances, exhibitions, bursaries, andapprentice-fees for meritorious students. We suppose all the hospitals to agree in the one point ofabandoning the monastic system, and of substituting for it asystem of maintenance, allowances, exhibitions, and this course, the hospital revenues would be immenselyeconomised, while the evils of a vicious system of charitywould be removed. The following diagram indicates a division of subjects ofinstruction between the five great hospitals of Edinburgh,when graded in relation to one another :—. • 2 c C5 rs cm: C 148 THE ENDOWED HOSPITALS OF SCOTLAND. Before leaving, however, the above suggestions to tlie con-sideration of trustees, it may, perliaps, be well to anticipateas far as possible two prima facie objections wbich might beurged against them—namely, First, that founders intentionshave been throughout disregarded; Second, that it would beabsurd, or undesirable, to institute anything like competitionamong children of tender age at a primary school. To theseobjections we would answer, first, confidently, that thefounders of Edinburgh hospitals, had remarkably generaland undefined purposes of doing good, and that a scheme likethat suggested would not be in any point at variance with thespirit of their bequests ; second, that by competition in thefeeding schools, we only mean that the masters of thoseschools should send up the most promising pupils (theymight be all the upper classes) annually, to the superiorprimary schools within the hospitals, and fr
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