Half marks to be obtained in arithmetic, and four-tenths in other subjects.
Further Examination.
| Mathematics, harder questions | 300 |
| Latin: translation, grammar, prose composition (no dictionary allowed) | 300 |
| Geography, based on Grove’s Primer | 150 |
| English history, a selected period | 150 |
| Drawing: freehand and rectangular model | 100 |
This for boys of an average age, under thirteen! What benefit to the Service was likely to result from such measures it is not easy to perceive; and their unpractical nature was evidently speedily realised, for two months later came fresh regulations, altering the limits of age from 12½ to 14, and subsequently 13 to 14½, abolishing quadratic equations, the latter half of the first book of Euclid, and exercises thereon, and allowing a dictionary for French and Latin.
These regulations had, however, scarcely been in operation for twelve months before another alteration was made—a circular dated June, 1888, reintroducing the harder examination of May, 1887.
There may have appeared to be some good cause at the time for these extraordinary vicissitudes, but it is difficult to trace them at the present day.
Naval education appears to have attracted a good deal of attention in 1882, for several letters and a long article are to be found in the Times on the subject.
THE “BRITANNIA” AND THE “HINDOSTAN.” CADET RACQUET COURTS IN FOREGROUND.
Photo: Smale & Son, Dartmouth.