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determination of this Board, that defects and deficiencies as
soon as they betray themselves, whether in the plan of or-
ganization, the internal discipline, or .course of study, shall
be remedied. A Board of visitors of zealous and intelligent
gentlemen, constituted of the Hon. H. H. Goldsborough,
Coi. Samuel Hambleton, J. C. W. Powell, Eaqr., and Dr.
Joseph Chamberlaine, has been appointed, and these with the
President of this Board will have the school under their
special supervision. With as fervent desire and intention to
make this school all that the friends of education in the
County can wish, they will allow no impediment to stand in
the way of a full accomplishment of this their earnest pur-
pose. In concluding what I have to say of this High-School,
it should be mentioned that one great good which it has
measurably accomplished, is the eradicating the prejudices
which has existed so long in the community against sending
children, especially, girls, to Public Schools. This school
now has for pupils the children of our most respected citizens.

The objection is offered to the establishment of one High-
School in each County, that its advantages and benefits are
local—that is confined to but few of the whole body of citi-
zens; and it has been suggested that the funds appropriated to
one school should be divided among three, lour or more.
The game objection would in some degree pertain to these
schools—their benefits would be still local. But is not the
objection overborne by the advantage to the whole community
oi having one thoroughly good school, of the best order, in a
county, of three or four of interior grade, which they must be,
from the very small amount of money which each could receive
from the State ? Our District Schools should be made equal
to the wants of the many who are not, and our High-Schaoitr
should be for those who are anxious aad willing to give their
children a more extended course of study. If every man must
have equal advantages, an impossibility, as the world is
constituted, no enterprise for the amelioration of society could
be undertaken or accomplished. Much that we enjoy to the
exclusion of our fellows, as also much that we suiter, is the
result of accident or of those laws which are so recondite that
we cannot discover their origia or mode of action. The occu-
pant of an island in our bay who complaint that he hag not
a school at his door, complains as foolishly as he who thinks
his lot a hard one because he was not born heir to a fortune.

During the past year we hate put ia operation those appli-
ances which the law points out for securing efficient teachers
in the future, and the improvement of those now actively
engaged ia school work. Permits have been issued to the full
number of pupils which this County is entitled to in the
Normal School. I take pleasure in testifying to the admira-
ble tuition of Professor Newell, as shown by an actual exam-
ination of our own students, now in that institution.