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Title: Three Addresses to Girls at School

Author: James Maurice Wilson

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THREE ADDRESSES

TO

GIRLS AT SCHOOL

THREE ADDRESSES

TO

GIRLS AT SCHOOL

BY THE

REV. J. M. WILSON, M.A.

HEAD MASTER OF CLIFTON COLLEGE
AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

London

PERCIVAL & CO.
_KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN_
1890

PREFACE.

The following addresses were printed for private circulation among those
to whom they were delivered. But they fell also into other hands; and I
have been frequently asked to publish them. I hesitated, on account of
the personal and local allusions; but I have found it impossible to
remove these allusions, and I have therefore reprinted the addresses in
their original form.

J.M.W.

CLIFTON COLLEGE,

_Sept. 1890._

CONTENTS.

PAGE

I.

EDUCATION 1

_October 25, 1887._

THE HIGH SCHOOL, CLIFTON.

II.

HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOR GIRLS 21

_December, 1889._

THE HIGH SCHOOLS AT BATH AND CLIFTON.

III.

RELIGION 53

_April 13, 1890._

ST. LEONARD'S SCHOOL, ST. ANDREWS, FIFE.

THREE ADDRESSES

TO

GIRLS AT SCHOOL

I.

EDUCATION.

EDUCATION.[1]

Now that I have given away the certificates it will be expected that I
should make a few remarks on that inexhaustible subject, Education. My
remarks will be brief.

I take this opportunity of explaining to our visitors the nature of the
Higher Certificate examination. It is an examination instituted
originally