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Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.
result of this inquiry was so unsatisfactory , that it led to an immediate alteration in the London district . Instead of the parents being allowed to select the schools for their children as heretofore , several localities were fixed upon in different parts of the metropolis , and one central school appointed in
each district , to which the boys residing in the neighbourhood were allotted . Half-yearly examinations of the boys residing in London were also commenced at Freemasons' Hall , the results of which have been most decidedly indicative not only ofthe wisdom of the new regulations , but of the immense
progress of the pupils . But even this arrangement is not without its disadvantages . Independently of the Committee being quite unable to learn the condition of the country boys , active and continued supervision on their part is still impracticable even in London ; and , after the most careful consideration of the subject , the conclusion has been come to , that it is impossible to give the children that education or regular
training which the emergencies of the times so peculiarly require , in order to fit them to become active and useful members of society , no less than to enable them to recover that position in society which their parents once held , and which , from those sad circumstances in life , over which
no human power has the slightest control , their parents have fallen . The M . W . the Grand Master , the Earl of Zetland , has himself well considered this matter , and has most warmly entered into the proposition , that a building should be reared . For this purpose the Committee have ,
therefore , set aside a portion of the surplus of the revenue of the Institution to be thus devoted ; but , as it will take considerable time for this special fund to reach the amount required for building purposes , it is necessary at once to appeal to the Craft for assistance . In the entire number of Freemasons ,
no one has shown greater anxiety for the progress of this Institution than the worthy Bro . R . G . Alston , the Chairman of the Committee , to whose letter we have already referred , and no one is better calculated to move the Craft to aid such an object than himself . We are confident that his appeal
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Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.
result of this inquiry was so unsatisfactory , that it led to an immediate alteration in the London district . Instead of the parents being allowed to select the schools for their children as heretofore , several localities were fixed upon in different parts of the metropolis , and one central school appointed in
each district , to which the boys residing in the neighbourhood were allotted . Half-yearly examinations of the boys residing in London were also commenced at Freemasons' Hall , the results of which have been most decidedly indicative not only ofthe wisdom of the new regulations , but of the immense
progress of the pupils . But even this arrangement is not without its disadvantages . Independently of the Committee being quite unable to learn the condition of the country boys , active and continued supervision on their part is still impracticable even in London ; and , after the most careful consideration of the subject , the conclusion has been come to , that it is impossible to give the children that education or regular
training which the emergencies of the times so peculiarly require , in order to fit them to become active and useful members of society , no less than to enable them to recover that position in society which their parents once held , and which , from those sad circumstances in life , over which
no human power has the slightest control , their parents have fallen . The M . W . the Grand Master , the Earl of Zetland , has himself well considered this matter , and has most warmly entered into the proposition , that a building should be reared . For this purpose the Committee have ,
therefore , set aside a portion of the surplus of the revenue of the Institution to be thus devoted ; but , as it will take considerable time for this special fund to reach the amount required for building purposes , it is necessary at once to appeal to the Craft for assistance . In the entire number of Freemasons ,
no one has shown greater anxiety for the progress of this Institution than the worthy Bro . R . G . Alston , the Chairman of the Committee , to whose letter we have already referred , and no one is better calculated to move the Craft to aid such an object than himself . We are confident that his appeal