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26 ENDOWED SCHOOLS,
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boy and s to ' schools which , the where townspeop tradesmen le mi ' s g orp ht hans send mi their ght daug be received hters cheap gratis ly , , _,
as day scholars , and where a useful commercial education should be women given , , such clerks as , and would bookkeepers enable the , or pup , if ils so inclined hereafter , teachers to become in private sales-
schools . If the principle laid down at the beginning be admitted—viz .
that those classes who are the most in want of assistance , yet receive hub little from existing endowmentare those who ought to
, be helped , then a fair claim for these poor girls has been shown , for they certainly want help more than any other class in the
community and as certainly receive but little ; in some counties positively none . *
If any scruple be felt at applying money left originally for general purposes to the special object of improving the condition
charities of women now , the called reader mischievous must remember and useless that the was land left left as much to these
forthe benefit , of women as of men . Some of it , was given in order to * distribute bread among the poor , not excluding women , some to
provide coals at stated seasons without distinction of sex , sonae to provide loding and food for wayfarers whether men or women .
made Many useless of these g by the institutions advance of have civilization been abused , and , without others doubt have been they
require reform . Still the intention of the founders to help all whorequire hel-without partiality or favourshould be respected ; and
as the female p , population is more numerous , and more distressed than the malewomen have hitherto enjoyed the larger share of the bounty .
, If then these , charities are abolished and boys' schools are erected with their wealthwomen will be great losers . At the very least
one half of this money , belongs to women , as it was intended for their benefit by the foundersand if less than half is spent upon
; themcommon fairness will be disregarded as well as the founders ' , wishes .
But perhaps it may be said that such an injustice can never be contemplatedand that the evil deprecated is imaginary .
Unhappily this , is not the case . At this moment a school is in the course of erection , ) - to be built and endowed at the
recommenda-* See table of Grammar Schools . The common endowed schools would be useful to lower class than those hspoken ofThe following counties
a ere . Bucking contain no ham , p Cambrid erior endowed ge , Cornwal sch l , D ls evon to w , hich Essex g , irl Gl s oucester can be , sent Plunting Schools ] : —Berk don ith s , ,
K Thus 3 , 681 ent , in Leicester scholars of , ) , Middlesex these Monmouth ounties , ( , containing Oxford is there , R sixteen the utland means , boy Somerse s' of Gramm training t , ( Surrey ar teachers , Sussex w for .
none c privat scholars e middle in endowed class schools schools . does In m not any amount other counties to ten the number of female
. t This school is in Lincolnshire . Twelve almshouses and of their the fund inmates is to ,
" m be al devoted e and fema to l t his , will boy still s' school be maintained . The cost ; but of building all the is rest estimated at , £ 3000 ,,
and the salaries of the masters will be . £ 160 .
26 Endowed Schools,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/26/
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