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The average number at the Girls' College was 155, and the average number of boarders 42, and the general health of the pupils was excellent. At the beginning of the year a course in agriculture was added to the existing professional and commercial courses, and it became necessary to provide further facilities for the teaching of science •by the erection of three new laboratories. Plans and specifications for the new laboratories are com plete. and the new buildings will be thoroughly equipped and ready for use at the beginning of 1913. The equipment of the gymnasium at the Girls' College was improved by the addition of a large wall mirror and a punching-ball, and. an additional bedroom and bathroom made out of the former hospital. In outdoor sports the Boys' College was very successful, winning the senior championship lor the Nelson district in football, and the Andrew Trophy for clean play. The Girls' College clubs were unusually active, the camera clubhand the hockey club doing specially good work. The former are indebted to Mr. Brusewitz for his lectures on. photography, and his helpful criticism : the latter to Mr. Spear, under whose able coaching they had a very successful season. They were runners-up for the senior championship and for both the senior and junior six-a-side tournaments. Three girls were picked to represent Nelson at the New Zealand" championship meeting. The results of the public examinations were very satisfactory. Boys' College : Thirty-six boys passed the Junior Civil Service or the Intermediate Examinations; two the Senior Civil Service full, and. four partial ; twelve the Matriculation : two the Junior Scholarships with credit : two the firstyears' terms. Girls' College : Two girls, \V. Betts and I. Gill, obtained Senior National Scholarships, and one passed the examination with credit. One girl obtained the first section of the B.A. degree, two passed second-year's terms, and four first-year's terms. Seven passed Matriculation and the allied examinations, and two the Senior Civil Service Examination. Fourteen were successful in the Junior Civil Service Examination, all but two gaining credit, and five passed the Senior Free Place Examination. Twenty-four gained Senior Free Places under clause 7 (a), and four obtained extension under clause (5) 1. There were altogether only five failures in. the University, Matriculation, and Civil Service Examinations. 2. Work or the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' College. Highest. —English —Shakespeare's Tempest ; Paradise Lost. 1 and 11, and Milton's minor poems ; Childe Harold, selections, and Macaulay's essay on Byron ; Brooke's Primer of Literature ; Nesfield's English, Past and Present ; selected essays. Latin—Cicero's Letters, selected ; selections from Virgil, Livy, and Ovid ; Bradley's Arnold and Aids ; Creighton's Primer of Roman History ; Horton's History. ■ French —Tartarin de Tarascon : Half-hours with the Best Authors ; Wellington College Grammar ; Blouet's Composition : Dent's Phonetic Reader. Mathematics—Murray's Arithmetic : Chrystall's Algebra ; Barnard and Child's Senior Geometry ; Lachlan and Fletcher's Trigonometry : Ward's Exercises in Trigonometry Science—Edser's Heat ; Robson's Exercises in Heat ; Jones and Blomfield's Mechanics. The above is the work of the Sixth Form, the standard being that of the Junior Scholarship Examination. Exempted University students did. a portion of the above, and the workrequired for the first section in English, Latin, mathematics, jurisprudence, and constitutional history. Lowest. —English —The Citizen Reader (Civics, &c.) ; Scott's Fvanhoe ; Poems of English Heroism ; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar. Longmans' Historical Series, No. 1. Meiklejohn's New Geography, Part 1. Latin —Dixs First Latin Lessons. French —Siepmann's Primary French Course, No. 1. Science —Donnington's Practical Exercises. Mathematics —Workman's Tutorial Arithmetic ; Barnard and Child's Algebra, Part I : Eggar's Practical Exercises in Geometry. Thornton's Primer of Book-keeping. Field-work for agricultural side. Girls' , College. Highest. —Junior University Scholarships and B.A. Degree work : English—Nesfield's Historica English and Derivation ; Romola ; King Lear : The Tempest ; Hale's Longer English Poems : Extracts from Chaucer's Prologue ; Faerie Queene : Paradise Lost; and modern English authors ; Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer; Morris and Skeat's Specimens of Early English. Latin—iEneid, Book TV ; Philippic, II ; Bradley's Arnold's Prose Composition : Allen's Elementary Latin Grammar ; Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose ; selections from Blackie's Senior Unseens ; Wilkins's Antiquities ; Merivale and Puller's Roman History. French—Eve's Wellington College Grammar ; Spiers's Rapid French Grammar ; Bui's Idioms : Siepmann's (first term) Phonetics ; Charles XII (Voltaire); Le Medecin Malgre Lvi (Moliere) : Athalie (Racine) ; Coloniba (Merimee). German—Hermann and Dorothea (Goethe) ; Nathan derWeise (Lessing) ; Ekkehard. Mathematics —Pendlebury's Elementary Trigonometry ; Todhunter and. Loney's Algebra for Beginners : Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra ; Baker and Bourne's Elementary Geometry ; Loney's Elements of Statics and Dynamics ; Loney's Elements of Hydrostatics. Lowest. —First year of Civil Service work : English—ln the World of Books (Arnold) ; Nesfield's Manual of English Grammar. Mathematics—Workman's Tutorial Arithmetic : ■ Hall and Knight's Algebra : Baker and Bourne's Geometry. Geography —Meiklejohn's New Geography. Physiology— Furneaux's Physiology. Botany —Evans's Botany for Beginners. History—Warner's Survey of British History- French—Siepmann's First French Course. Latin —Scott and Jones's First Latin Course.

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