usic may
put forward its best pupil as a candidate for collegiate
honours. The expense of maintenance and education of pupils I
estimate at about L80 a year; that of education alone at about
L40 a year. I should hope also that your liberality will grant
me means to found at least two fellowships, in order that rising
musicians, who have acquired distinction at the college, may not
be tempted on commencing their professional career to sacrifice
the higher aspirations of their art to the necessity of
providing immediate means of subsistence.

"Having settled the number of our foundationers, where are we to
place them? In London, I need not say, land is sold by the
yard, and not by the acre, and a square yard in a good locality
is often equal in value to a square acre in a remote district.
Yet, for the health of a young community, we must have open
space and pure air, and space is particularly necessary in a
music school, for, as the Duke of Edinburgh showed in his
address at Manchester, pupils in an ordinary school may be
grouped and classified, but musical pupils require space for the
performance either of vocal or instrumental music, and the
individual attention of their masters to an extent quite unknown
in the education of pupils in other branches of knowledge.
Again, the locality in which a school is placed must be easy of
access in order to accommodate the staff of teachers, for,
though I hope to have a resident staff to a greater extent than
has yet been tried in any other musical school, yet undoubtedly
extraneous teaching must form a considerable portion of our
instruction. Now, on the point of site, I am happy to say I can
give the meeting the most satisfactory assurances without making
any calls on their liberality. It is due to the foresight of my
father, the Prince Consort, that at a time when South Kensington
was comparatively remote from London, the large estate held by
the Exhibition Commissioners was purchased with a view to
furnish sites for future public buildings. In the few years that
have elapsed since that purchase a suburb has been converted
into a city. The estate lies between two stations of the
Metropolitan District Railway, and is skirted on the north by
one of the most frequented roads in the Metropolis. Here already
we have a nucleus for the