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Mr. Ebenezar Street, Head Master 1782-3, legiate or High School had a different system. It
and his son Samuel were directed to “attend was split into two divisions: the Artiuni, classi­
diligently to the Instruction of the Charity cal, and the Scicntium, scientific. These were
Children in Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and numbered so that the present Sixth Form would
Psalmody, and to be particularly attentive to have been called either the Prima Artiuni or
the Morals and decent behavior of the Children, Prima Scicntium.
and take them to Church whenever Divine Matters were even more complicated in the
Service is performed.” It is not known how eighteen nineties, when there might or might not
many scholars there were in the Charity School have been an Artium-Scientium division, and the
at this time, although the Streets, father and son, Latin terminology extended down to the Sexta
were allowed to “take in twenty private Scholars, and Septima, depending upon the age of the
provided that this indulgence shall not prevent youngest class. Often the division was purely
their attention to the public School.” arbitrary. An example is this formula from the
We do know from the account of the one School newspaper of 1891 : “ l he boys who take
hundred fiftieth anniversary service published in Virgil are Tertia A, and go to the gymnasium
1859, that the School was at that time divided separately from the rest of the class, who next
into five classes, two of which most probably took year will constitute the Seconda. I he boys who
Greek, and we know that in 1900 there were take Virgil will constitute the Prima next year.”
three divisions in the School. The first was the The scholars of the 1890’s wrere scholars in
English School, whose classes were numbered a real sense. They reported monthly to the news­
English IV, III, II, I, in that order, correspond­ paper upon their progress. “We believe that this
ing, one can suppose, to Grades One through is the only school that has a Greek dialogue re­
Four. The second division was the Intermediate cited by boys who have studied Greek only six
School numbered in a like manner. The Col­ months,” they boasted. It should be added that

A group of young scholars in about the Third Form taken in the lunchroom about 1895.

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