DUNEDIN HIGH SCHOOL

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2705, 8 December 1882, Page 3

DUNEDIN HIGH SCHOOL

[press association telegram.]

DUNEDIN, December 7.

At the breaking up of the Boys’ High School to-day the Hector, Dr. Macdonald, in his report wrote—“ It is worthy of note that candidates appeared from at least four educational institutions in Christchurch, and from only two in Otago. In other places, also, there were instances of defeated candidates returning again and again to the examinations till their efforts proved successful. I have known no such case in Dunedin, and even the High School boys who have gone to the University are chiefly to be found not in the arts classes, but in the schools of law, medicine and mining. I neither wonder at this nor complain of it in a busy centre of mercantile and manufacturing enterprise like Dunedin. The higher learning must be a plant of slow growth in a new country, and both selfdenial and foresight are necessary to lead parents to give their boys before entering on special preparation for the duties of life the inestimable benefits of a few years’ pure culture of the mind. In the present circumstances, therefore, I record with peculiar satisfaction the noble gift of Mr George Gray Eussell to this school. Mr Eussell has vested in the Board of Governors the sum of .£IOOO, the interest of which is to form scholarships to enable distinguished pupils, who would otherwise be compelled to enter at once on active life, to proceed to the University and take the degree in Arts. This is an act not merely of munificence, but of wise and far-seeing patriotism, not the less worthy of admiration that its full benefit to the country will not become apparent till after many days.”