Narrative of the Failure of an Attempt to Establish a Great National Institution, Intended, More Especially, for the Reception of Orphan Children of Officers of the British Army: But So Constituted as to Form, at the Same Time, a Highly Respectable Yet EC
Excerpt from Narrative of the Failure of an Attempt to Establish a Great National Institution, Intended, More Especially, for the Reception of Orphan Children of Officers of the British Army: But So Constituted as to Form, at the Same Time, a Highly Respectable Yet Economical Seminary, for the Education of Officers Sons and Daughters, in General Not only, however, have all these hopes been doomed to be disappoint ed, but I have lately had the additional mortitication of noticing� in a Canadian journal, a brief notice of ...
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Excerpt from Narrative of the Failure of an Attempt to Establish a Great National Institution, Intended, More Especially, for the Reception of Orphan Children of Officers of the British Army: But So Constituted as to Form, at the Same Time, a Highly Respectable Yet Economical Seminary, for the Education of Officers Sons and Daughters, in General Not only, however, have all these hopes been doomed to be disappoint ed, but I have lately had the additional mortitication of noticing� in a Canadian journal, a brief notice of'a Repmt of the G01 ernors of that preposed great National Institution, the Vl ellinfrton Colleoe, from which it would appear that the subscnptions exeee 011 �3 l0 000� that of this sum �20 000 are to be devoted to the erection ofthe 1equired building5� and that the remainder-so vested as to yield an annual revenue of about �3000, -is to form the foundation on which it is preposed to maintain, clethe, and educate, in the hrst instance, only 60 boys, giving a preference to orphans, divided into three classes of 20 boys, each paying �10, �15, or �20, according to the class to which he belongs; and that there shall hereafter be a further extension of the original design, (1) to a fourth class consisting of4so boys, each paying �30 per annum thus making 100 pupils 1n all, contributing from �10 to �30 each! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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