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Excerpt from S. Nicolas College and Its Schools: A Record of Thirty Years' Work in the Effort to Endow the Church of England With a System of Self-Supporting Public Boarding-Schools for the Upper, Middle, and Lower Middle Classes
N the year being then in charge of S. John's Middle School, Hurstpierpoint, I was applied to by my revered friend, the late Rt. Hon. Sir John Taylor Cole ridge, to furnish information on the subject of S. Nicolas College and its Schools, for the use of the Royal Commis sioners (of whom he was one), who were then enquiring into the state of education among the poor. It subse quently appeared that these schools did not fall within the scope of that enquiry, and the information I drew up for my friend was not presented to the Commission. But when, in 1861, a public meeting was held in s.j'ames's Hall, under the presidency of the late Lord Brougham, for the promotion of S. Nicolas College, and general interest was directed towards our Institutions, the material which I had compiled for another purpose, appeared likely to answer the enquiries that then sprang up, and with Sir John Coleridge's permission, it appeared in the form of a letter addressed to him. Ou the extension of the work of the college into the Midland district in 1866, a second edition, quickly followed by a third, was called for; and' now, in 1878, when the letter has been for some time out of print, the fresh opera tions of the college, always stimulating fresh curiosity, and exciting hardly less interest, suggest a re-statement of its original design, and a record of its operations in the in terval. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
