XVI.-APPOINTMENT OF SUB-EXAMINERS. Copy of an Order in Council approved by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, the 12th day of July, A. D. 1877. Upon the recommendation of the Honourable Arthur Sturgis Hardy, Acting Minister of Education, the Committee of Council advise that the following gentlemen be appointed Sub-Examiners under the Committee for Second-Class Teachers and for Intermediate Certificates, namely, the following Public School Inspectors: A. Campbell, S. P. Davis, J. Dearness, M. J. Kelly, C. Moses, J. J. Wadsworth and Messrs. C. Clarkson, B. A., W. Scott, B. A., and that the following gentlemen be appointed substitutes, should any of the above be prevented from acting, namely, Adam Johnston, B. A., Classical Gold Medallist, J. E. Wetterell, B. A., Prince of Wales Prizeman, Dr. Evans of Trinity College, J. L. Davison, Provincial Gold Medallist, Model School, Toronto. Certified. (Signed) J. G. SCOTT, Clerk, Executive Council, Ontario. XVII. CHANGES IN LATIN AND ENGLISH FOR DECEMBER INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION. Copy of an Order in Council approved by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, the 12th day of July, A. D. 1877. The Committee of Council have had under consideration the annexed report of the Honourable Mr. Hardy, Acting Minister of Education, with reference to certain changes to be made in the portions of Latin and of English Literature to be read for the December Intermediate Examination, and advise that the same be acted upon. 12th July, 1877. Clerk, Executive Council, Ontario. The undersigned respectively begs to report for the consideration of His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor in Council the following respecting the Education Department, that is to say:: The Central Cmmittee of Examiners recommend, in view of the revised curriculum of the University, that the following changes be made in the portions of Latin and of English Literature to be read for the December Intermediate Examination: (a) Latin, for Cæsar Book V. substitute Cæsar Bellum Britannicum, being Book IV. chapters 20-38 and Book V. chapters 1-23. (b) English Literature, for Gray's Elegy, substitute Goldsmith's Deserted Village. The other subjects to remain as before, viz. Virgil, Æneid, Book II., lines 1-300, and Scott's Lady of the Lake. The undersigned would respectfully recommend that an Order in Council be passed, to give effect to the above modifications. Respectfully submitted, XVIII.-BOOKS SANCTIONED FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND PRIZES. Copy of an Order in Council approved by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, the 12th day of July, A.D. 1877. Upon the recommendation of the Honourable Mr. Hardy, Acting Minister of Educa tion, the Committee of Council advise that the accompanying list of books for Libraries and Prizes be sanctioned by your Honour. XIX.-SURRENDER OF LANDS BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE HIGH SCHOOL, CITY OF LONDON. Copy of an Order in Council approved by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, the 26th day of July, A.D. 1877. Upon the recommendation of the Honourable Mr. Hardy, Acting Minister of Education, the Committee of Council advise that the accompanying surrender by the Board of Education, of the City of London, and the High School Board of the City of London, to Her Majesty, of the lands therein mentioned, be accepted by your Honour, and that the said surrender be enrolled in the office of the Provincial Registrar. The Committee further advise that the lands in the said surrender mentioned, be sold, and the proceeds applied for High School purposes, under the authority of 37 Victoria, cap. 27, sections 88-94. Certified. 26th July, 1877. (Signed) J. G. SCOTT, Clerk, Executive Council, Ontari XX. ARRANGEMENTS WITH PUBLISHERS OF CANADA SCHOOL JOURNAL. Copy of an Order in Council approved by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, the 28th day of July, A.D. 1877. The Committee of Council have had under consideration the annexed report of the Honourable Mr. Hardy, Acting Minister of Education, with reference to certain arrange ments proposed to be made with the publishers of the Canada School Journal, and advise that the recommendation therein contained be acted upon. Certified. (Signed) 30th July, 1877. J. LONSDALE CAPREOL, The undersigned respectfully begs to report to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, respecting the Education Department, as follows: The publication of the Canada School Journal, by Messrs. Adam Miller & Co., with an additional staff, and of contributors composed of many who take the lead in Educational work in the Province, has brought under consideration the question of the continuance of the Journal of Education. In a former report to your Honour in Council on this subject, the Minister recommended the continuance of the publication of the Journal, in order I to supply information as to the actions of the Department to Inspectors, Trustees, Teach ers and others, which information required a special Journal for the purpose. Now that such a Journal does exist, in the Canada School Journal, whose success should be aided by the Department, and not imperilled by the competition of the Journal of Education, circulated gratuitously, the undersigned respectfully recommends, that the arrangements proposed to be made by the undersigned with the publishers, be approved of by your Honour in Council, such arrangements being that the publishers shall be paid fifty dollars per month, and that in consideration of this sum, should furnish the Depart ment with two hundred copies of the Journal for distribution to inspectors and others, as also such space as the Department may from time to time require for the publication of Departmental matter, and that such arrangement be revocable at the pleasure of the Copy of an Order in Council approved by His Honour the Lieutenant Governor, the 24th day of September. A.D. 1877. Upon the recommendation of the Honourable the Minister of Education the Committee of Council advise that the Annexed Programme for High Schools and Intermediate Examinations for December, 1877, marked A., and also the subjects in History and Engish Literature for First-Class candidates marked C. be approved of by Your Honour. Certified. (Signed) J. G. SCOTT, This Programme was amended on 13th November. See XXIV. EXAMINATIONS OF DECEMBER, 1877 AND JULY, 1878. Works prescribed in History and Literature. 1.- FIRST CLASS CERTIFICATES. Examination in History, July, 1878. General History.-Freeman, Chapters 1--5 inclusive. Ancient History.-Special and more detailed study of a particular period:-History of Rome from the end of the Second Punic War to the death of Augustus. (Schmitz's Ancient History, Book III., or Liddell's History of Rome may be consulted.) Modern History.-Special aud more detailed study of a particular period: History of England; The Stuart Period. (Greene's Short History of the English People, Douglas Hamilton's Constitutional History and Macaulay's History, may be consulted.) English Literature for the First-class Examinations, July 1878. Shakespeare.-Macbeth. Bacon.-Ten Essays:- (ii.) of Death. (xii.) of Boldness. (xxvii.) of Friendship. (xxxi.) of Suspicion. (xxxviii.) of Nature in Men. (xlii.) of Youth and Age. (lii.) of Ceremonies and Respects. (lviii.) of the Vicissitudes of Things. Goldsmith- "The Traveller" and "The Deserted Village.' Macaulay. The Essays on Boswell's Life of Johnson and on Moore's Life of Lord Byron. II. SECOND-CLASS CERTIFICATES. The works prescribed for the Examination in English Literature for Second Class Certificates in December, 1877, are:-Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," and Sir Walter Scott's" Lady of the Lake." Candidates will be expected to show that they have read the whole of the latter poem ; but the questions set will be based mainly on Cantos iii. and iv. For the July Examination, 1878, Goldsmith's "Traveller" and "Deserted Village" have been prescribed. In History, the questions set for Second Class Certificates will be confined to the Leading Events of English and Canadian History, also of Roman History to the end of the Second Punic War. III. THIRD-CLASS CERTIFICATES. The paper on English Literature to be set for candidates for Third Class Certificates in 1878 will be based on one or more of the following lessons in the Fifth Reader. Page 123. The Cloud-Shelley. 140. The Origin of the English Nation-Macaulay. 198. Character of Elizabeth-Hume. 207. The Battle of Naseby-Thorne. 213. Cromwell's Expulsion of the Parliament-Lingard. 278. Death of George III-Thackeray. 276. The Academy of Lagado-Swift. 411. History in Worls-Trench. 417. Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield-Johnson. 418. Letter to the Duke of Bedford-Junius. 421. Chaucer and Cowley-Dryden. 422. Dryden and Pope-Johnson. 460. Music by Moonlight-Shakespeare. 480. Trial Scene from the Merchant of Venice-Shakespeare. 484. From "King Richard II"--Shakespeare. 485. From "King Richard III". Do. XXII.-ESTABLISHMENT OF A COUNTY MODEL SCHOOL IN THE VILLAGE OF RENFREW. Copy of an Order in Council, approved by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, the .25th day of October. A. D. 1877. Upon the consideration of the report of the Honourable the Minister of Education, dated the 17th day of October, 1877, the Committee of Council advise that the establishment of a County Model School for the County of Renfrew, in the Village of Renfrew, be sanctioned. Certified. 27th October, 1877. (Signed) J. LONSDALE CAPREOL, Assistant Clerk, Executive Council, Ont. XXIII.-PAYMENT OF SUB-COMMITTEE FOR VISITING AND INSPECTING MODEL SCHOOLS. Copy of an Order in Council, approved by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, the 13th day of November, A.D. 1877. Upon the recommendation of the Honourable the Minister of Education, the Committee of Council advise that the time and expenses of the Members of the sub-Committee of the Central Committee, for visiting and inspecting the Model Schools, be allowed for and paid by the Education Department, out of the Legislative appropriation for “unforseen and unprovided expenses." Certified. (Signed) 14th November, 1877. J. G. SCOTT, Clerk, Executive Council, Ont. XXIV. AMENDED HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMME AND INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATIONS. Copy of an Order in Council, approved by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, the 13th day of November, A. D. 1877. Upon the recommendation of the Honourable the Minister of Education, the Committee of Council advise that the regulations of the Department respecting the High School progamme and intermediate examinations be amended in the particulars in the accompanying form, and that the same be approved of by Your Honour. N.B. Instead of a fixed amount of work for each Form, the Department prescribes the subjects of study, and the amount to be done in each subject in the Lower School and in the Upper School respectively; leaving it to the local authorities to decide (subject to the approval of the High School Inspectors) according to the varying circumstances of the Schools, the order in which the subjects shall be taken up, the amount of work to be done in a given time, and the number of classes to be carried on at once. |