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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS . ST . JOHN'S HILL , BATTERSEA RISE , S . W . Instituted 178 S . CHIEF PATRONESS : HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN . GRAND PATRON AND PRESIDENT : HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES , n K . G ., & c „ M . W . G . M . GRAND PATRONESS : HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES . A QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the Governors and Subscribers of this Institution will be held in the H ALL OF THE F REEMASONS' TAVERN , Great Queen Street , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields , London , on SATURDAY , 27 TH O CTOBER , 1 S 8 S , at Twelve o ' clock precisely , on the General Business of the Institution , to consider Notice of Motion as under , and to Elect 9 Girls into the School from a list of 63 approved Candidates . The Election will commence at One o ' clock , or after the usual business is over . NOTICE OF MOTION . . By Bro . C . J . PERCEVAL , Vice-President" In the event of the recent addition to Law 55 being confirmed , to add the following rider , viz .: ' That this Clause shall not apply in the case of a child whose father was a Life Governor of the Institution , at the time of his death . ' " F . R . W . HEDGES , Secretary . 5 , Freemasons' Hall , Great Queen Street , W . C , October 20 th , 1 S 8 S .

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To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

W . F . TOLLADAY . —The sketch you send from a tombstone at Dunstaffnage Castle , near Oban , is simply the working tools of an Operative Mason , in order to suggest the trade of the deceased . The following' communications among others unavoidably stand over : — CRAFT—Prudence Lodge , No . 2060 ; Egerton Lodge ,

No . 2132 . INSTRUCTION — Loughborough Lodge , and Chiswick Lodge , No . 2012 . ROYAL ARCH—Francis White Chapter , No . 1437 . Laying the Memorial-stone of the Children's Hospital at Leicester . Jubilee of a . Subscribing Member to the Craft . Consecration of the Loyal Monmouth Chapter , No . 457 .

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SATURDAY , OCTOBER 20 , 1888 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . To the Editor of the "Freemason . "

Dear Sir and Brother , 1 am not at all surprised that my " long dissertation on the Masonic services and rewards of the members of the Executive , or the scholarly attainments of Bro . Dr . Morris , " should have seriously disconcerted Bro . Tunnicliff

and his associate brethren . I was anxious it should have this effect , as I consider the spirit of decided hostility in which they are acting towards the School authorities unwarranted by any of the circumstances that have occurred in the history of the Institution , either recently or in the past , and in flagrant opposition to the principles of

Freemasonry . As regards the distinction which Bro . Tunnicliff is desirous of establishing between hostility to the members of the Executive and hostility to their acts , I must remind him that trees are judged by the fruit they bear , and men by the acts they do . It was because the men wr . o constitute the Executive had done good service to Freemasonry in

general , and the Boys School in particular , that the General Committee elected them to office ; and it is because by their official acts they have realised the expectations formed of them at the time of their election that the vast majority of the members ot the General Committee retain the fullest confidence in their ability and integrity of purpose . 1 have no objection to Bro . Tunnicliff thinking

differently from this majority , but when I find he does so , I naturally ask—Who is Bro . Tunnicliff ? that he should consritute himself the supreme judge of the members of the Executive and decide in oppo ^ tion to this majority that they have acted improperly or inefficiently j and Echo answers the question—Who is Bro . Tunnicliff ? When 1 hear that he and

bro . Greatbaich are recognised authorities on school management , discipline , and expenditure , I shall be inclined to attach some value to their opinion . In the meantime , as it is to the acts of the Executive , and not the men who constitute it , that the " small " circle , as " L . G . " describes it , " of which Bros . Tunnicliff and Greatbatch form the

centre , " is hostile , let me set those acts during the Secretaryship of Bro . Binckes before your readers in brief . As regards the House Committee and the Secretary—In 1861 , when Bro . Binckes was appointed to the latter office , there were 70 boys on the establishment . Now there are , including admissions by presentation , some 260 . At the former date the boys were housed in the mansion known

as Lordship House , which , with the 10 acres of ground surrounding it , had been purchased in 1856 for £ 3500 , and adapted to the purposes of a school . In 186 3 the first stone of the main portion of the present premises was laid by Bro . Algernon Perkins . In 186 4 the whole of the Government Stock belonging to the School— £ 13 , 100—was sold out to provide for the cost of erection , and in 1865 the

new School , capable of accommodating 100 , was opened by the Deputy Grand Master , and a mortgage of £ 10 , 000 was raised towards defraying the balance of the expenditure incurred . In 1866 a gymnasium and library were established , and Speech Day instituted . In 186 9 and 1870 the mortgage was paid off . In 1874 the School had been increased to 153 , and after the purchase , in 1877 , of Kent

House for the purposes of an Infirmary , and the enlargement of the existing premises , the number was augmented to ig 8 . In 1881 , it was resolved to build a Preparatory School , and the Festival of 1883 proving so successful with its tale of contributions amounting to £ 23 , 000 , Lindum Villas were purchased the year following , and in 1885 the new Hall and School were opened . The School estate and

buildings now erected thereon have cost from first to last . close on £ 95 , 000 , and but few who have been over the premises vill venture to assert that the Institution has not had full value for its money . During the same period the system of education has been improved and the curriculum , which was originally that of a parochial school , will compare favourably with thatofourbest middle-class BoardingSchools ,

while the boys , who used to be clad as pauper-children , are as well-clothed as they are well-fed and well-taught . The 27 Festivals from 1862 to 1888 inclusive , at which Bro . Binckes has assisted in his official capacity , have produced £ 246 , 942 , while the £ 13 , 100 of Government Stock , which was sold out in 186 4 towards defraying the cost of the new School , has been replaced by anothersum of about £ 17 , 000 . As regards Bro . Dr . Morris , the Head Master , the best

proof I can give of his qualifications for office will be found in the last annual report . On examining the table at pp . 22-3 , headed " University Local Examinations , " 1 rind that since December , 1876 , when he had been sufficiently long at his post to claim that his system of education was bearing good fruit , 150 of the boys sent up for examination have obtained honours , while 55 have satisfied the examiners , and this out of a grand total since 1 S 67 bj 185 honours and 96 passes .