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Saturday , December 25, 1897

SATURDAY , DECEMBER 25 , 1897

When this number reaches our readers , we shall all of us be in the full swing of Christmas festivity , and we gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity thus afforded us of wishing all our friends the Compliments of the Season . May they fully enjoy their brief holiday , and when they once again resume their duties , may they find themselves the . stronger and the happier for their rest !

* » » The report of the examiner delegated by the Cambridge University Syndicate to examine the pupils of the Royal Masonic Institution for Hoys , in October last , is a very satisfactory document , and as such will be appreciated by the friends and supporters of the School . The examination appears to have been of a most thorough and exhaustive character , and

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the results are stated very clearly and precisely for each class in respect of each of the subjects ; the five higher divisions being subjected to a written , and the five lower , except in arithmetic , to a viva voce

examination . # » * Taking the School as a whole , the report states that " a satisfactory examination was passed , showing a general improvement since my last visit . " Taking the Subjects separately , there were

some good scripture papers handed in by pupils in the upper classes . Bit the work as a whole is declared to have been " somewhat disappointing , " this being , however , the only subject in which there was a falling off from last year's

standard . The lower classes " did better in proportion than the classes above and gave no occasion for general fault-finding . " English grammar is pronounced to have been a satisfactory subject all through the Schnol , and in the higher forms the work was not only good ,

but particularly even . English composition was tested by means of essay-writing in the upper , and letter-writing in the lower , forms " with satisfactory results . " In English literature , the two higher classes passed well in Shakespeire ' s "Tempest , " though the

classical allusions are said to have been imperfectly explained , " and the quotations asked for " not well remembered . " The lower forms showed a fair appreciation of Scott ' s " Lady of the Lake . " In English History , Forms V . and IV . did well in their

study of the " Stuart Period , " the seniors showing both " a good general knowledge of the facts and also some more intimate acquaintance with Acts of Parliament and the constitutional history of the time . " The lower forms also answered well .

In Latin only one boy failed in Form V ., while several did distinctly well . " Form IVa . passed well in Caisar , but the lower forms showed considerable inequality . In French , Form V . the whole class " reached a very creditable standard , " and so did IVa .,

but in the lower classes good and bad were very evenly balanced . " As regards Arithmetic , five out of nine boys in Form V . obtained " unusually high marks , " and in IVa . the results were generally satisfactory ; but lower down there was the usual variety of

" strength and weakness , " and in the usual proportions . " A good average standard " was reached in Algebra , and the Euclid papers were answered with satisfactory results . In Theoretical Chemistry , answers in one case excellent , and in others satisfactory , were given , the result generally being a fair success .

•* As for the oral examination to which the lower half of the School was subjected , taking the severil Forms from Illc . downwards , the results appear to have been on the whole good , some of the classes showing a considerable amount of intelligence , even Form

lbthe junior class of the Preparatory School showing a fair amount of knowledge , and answering brightly in several of the subjects in which they were tested , while as regards the discipline of the School , so far as it came under the examiner ' s notice , it is pronounced " excellent . "

It will be remarked from the somew ' iat full particulars we have extracted from the Report that the course of study through which the boys are put at the Wood Green Institution is an ample one , and , what is of still greater importance , that the boys must

be thoroughly well taught and on a good system in order to have won on the whole such an amount of commendation , very discriminatingly bestowed , after an examination in their several subjects , which appears to have been very searching ; and we doubt not that a result so decidedly favourable will influence the lodges

and brethren to support the Institution , when the time comes in June next , for the Centenary Celebration . We may reasonably expect that people will contribute freely when they find their contributions are turned to such excellent account , as is shown by this very favourable report from a perfectly independent examiner .

The senior lodge on the register of the Grand Lodge of Prince Edward Island celebrated the centenary of its constitution in the month of October . St . John ' s Lodge , No . I , as it is styled , meets in Charlottetown , and received its warrant , in the first instance , from tlr ;

Provincial Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia , holding under the " Ancient , " or " Athol , " Grand Lodge , the date of the warrant being the 9 th October , 1707 , and the number on the Provincial roll 26 . On the 10 th March , 1829 , it was granted a warrant by our United Grand Lodge as No . N 33 , and at the closing up of numbers in

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1832 became No . 562 , and in 1 S 63 No . 397 . On the formation of the Grand Lodge of Prince Edward Island in 1 S 75 , it was struck off our regis ' . er , and

assumed its rightful place on the roll of the new Grand Lodge as its premier lodge . The original Provincial warrant is still religiously preserved among the ancient and most-cherished possessions of the lodge .

The day set apart for the celebration of the auspicious event , a detailed account of which will be found in the Canadian Craftsman for November , was the i ^ th October last , when a Special Communication of the Grand Lodge was held and the Grand Master ,

Bro . Leonard Morris , accompinied by his Grand Officers , visited the lodge and delivered an appropriate address , in the course of which he requested that in future when the Installing Master was inducting a new W . M . into the chair he should add the following

charge : "And now , Worshipful Sir , I entrust to your keeping the Original Charter of St . John ' s Lodge-This sacred relic , which I received from my predecessor , I now place in your hands , and I charge you to

preserve it with religious care , and when your Mastership terminates , deliver it to your successor with that charge with which you now receive it . " Permission was also given to the members to wear a distinctive apron in commemoration of the Centenary .

* * Subsequently , there Was a public meeting at the the Opera House , at which Bro . Adam Young , vV . M ., presided , when Bro . G . W . Wakeford read a brief history of the lodge , from which it appears that of the

present gg subscribing members of the lodge as many as 32 were initiated over a quarter of a century ago , the senior being Bro . Edward D . Love , who was initiated on the 8 ; h March , 1842 , and the next Bro . Adam Murray—no doubt one and the same with the W . M .

of the year—who first saw the light of Masonry on the nth January , 1853 . There was also an oration delivered by Bro . G . M . Campbell , and in the evening a banquet was held under the presidency of Bro . Young , W . M ., who was supported by the G . M . of Prince Edward

Island on his right , and Sir Louis Davies on his left . It will thus be seen that the centenary was commemorated with all the honours and we are but echoing the hope expressed by the G . Mister and others on the

occasion when we say wt trust this St . John ' s Lodge , No . I , on the register of Prince Edward Island , may be as prosperous in the years to come as it has been during the century which is now concluded .

It seems that the Grand Orient of France has issued a warrant for the constitution of a lodge , known as Emancipation Lodge , in the city of Montreal , and that such an unwarrantable intrusion into the jurisdic tion of the Grand Lodge of Quebec has been very pro

perly resented by the Grand Master , M . W . Bro . E . D . Chambers . As our readers are aware , the Grand Orient of France is not recognised as a Masonic body by the Grand Lodge of England , and English-speaking Grand Lodges generally , for the very sufficient reason

that for many years past it ( the Grand Orient ) has declined to include Belief in God and a future state among the fundamental principles of the Craft . No wonder , then , that the Grand Master of Quebec has

issued an edict declaring this so-called Lodge Emancipation irregular , and forbidding all intercourse between its members and those of the lodges under his authority .

The Canadian Craftsman for last month has a portrait and brief record ol the career of Bro . John H . Graham , LL . D ., Past G . Master of the Grand Lodge of Quebec . From the latter it appears that Bro . Graham , who is a native of Renfrewshire , was

born on the 5 th November , 1826 . He was initiated into Freemasonry in the De Witt Clinton Lodge , No . 15 , on the register of the Grand Lodge of Vermont , in 1857 . On removing to Richmond , Quebec , the following year , he joined St . Francis Lodge , No . 15 , O . R .,

and is a Royal Arch Mason , a Knight Templar , and a member of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite . It was under his auspices , as the first M . W . G . Master , that in 186 9 the Grand Lodge of Quebec was founded , and he was annually re-elected , year by year , till 18 75 ,

with the single exception of 1 N 74 , while he has since presided over the Grand Lodge , namely , in 1879 , 1880 , and 1881 . He has rendered further signal service to the Craft by his compilation of the history of "

Freemasonry in Quebec , " and , indeed , is justly esteemed as one of the ablest arid most prominent members of our Society . Bro . Graham is the representative of the Grand Lodge of Scotland at the Grand Lodge of Quebec .