McGill University Examinations.

The examination of candidates for matriculation at McGill University, and for the degree of Associate in Arts, was held in the Board Room in June, the secretary, Mr. John March, and Rev. W. S. Raymond acting as deputy examiners.

Eleven young ladies of the High School presented themselves and worked the papers assigned them. The published circular of the Board of Examiners shows the following results:

Passed the examination required for matriculation in Arts: Elizabeth Beatteay, Margaret M. Brady, Isabelle Estabrooke, Maggie Morrow, Harriet S. Olive, Agnes L. Warner.

Passed the examination for the degree of Associate in Arts: Harriet S. Olive, Isabelle Estabrooke, Elizabeth Beatteay, Celia G. Heffer, Edna M. Gregory, Loretta L. Shaw, Maggie Morrow, Margaret M. Brady, Lilian E. Fenwick, Agnes L. Warner. Alice M. Wilson passed with junior certificate.

The total number of candidates from all parts of Canada who passed successfully was 130, and their work was arranged under three classes. The following is the standing awarded to the St. John candidates in the several subjects, as shown by the published lists: READING.

Class 1. Position: (1) Beatteay, Estabrooke, Gregory, Morrow, Warner. (2) Brady, Fenwick, Heffer, Olive, Shaw, Wilson.

WRITING.

Class 1. Position: (1) Fenwick, Morrow, Olive, Shaw, Warner, Wilson.

Class 1. Position: (1) Beatteay, Heffer; (3) Brady; (4) Gregory, Morrow; (5) Shaw, Wilson; (6) Olive; (7) Estabrooke; (10) Fenwick,

ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

Class 1. Position: (3) Beatteay, Brady, Gregory; (6) Estabrooke, Warner; (8) Heffer, Morrow, Wilson; (9) Olive.

Class 2. Position: (3) Fenwick; (4) Shaw.

ARITHMETIC.

Class 1. Position: (1) Brady, Morrow, Olive; (7) Estabrooke; (15) Heffer.

Class 2. Position: (1) Gregory; (5) Fenwick.

Class 3. Position: (1) Beatteay; (6) Wilson; (8) Shaw.

GEOGRAPHY.

Class 1. Position: (2) Shaw; (4) Brady, Olive; (7) Estabrooke, Morrow; (9)

Heffer, Warner.

Class 2. Position: (2) Wilson; (5) Beatteay, Gregory.

Class 3. Position: (3) Fenwick.

BRITISH AND CANADIAN HISTORY.

Class 1. Position: (2) Brady.

Class 2. Position: (1) Morrow; (5) Shaw; (6) Estabrooke.

Class 3. Position: (1) Heffer; (3) Fenwick, Olive; (8) Beatteay, Gregory, Warner, Wilson.

GOSPELS (a subject not taken up in our schools).

Class 1. Position: (7) Heffer; (8) Brady, Morrow; (11) Shaw; (17) Wilson; (19)
Estabrooke; (20) Gregory; (21) Beatteay.

Class 2. Position: (5) Olive; (6) Fenwick; (7) Warner.

LATIN (Advanced).

Class 1. Position: (4) Morrow, Olive.

Class 2. Position: (2) Beatteay; (3) Estabrooke; (7) Shaw; (8) Gregory; (9) Wilson; (11) Brady.

FRENCH.

Class 1. Position: (11) Heffer.

Class 2. Position: (15) Shaw.

Class 3. Position: (6) Gregory; (13) Fenwick.

GEOMETRY.

Class 1. Position: (17) Brady; (20) Beatteay; (24) Morrow; (29) Estabrooke; (34) Fenwick.

Class 2. Position: (16) Olive; (17) Heffer.

Class 3. Position: (6) Warner.

ALGEBRA.

Class 1. Position: (3) Olive; (4) Heffer; (8) Fenwick; (9) Morrow; (11) Gregory; (26) Beatteay.

Class 2. Position: (5) Brady; (7) Warner; (11) Estabrooke, Wilson; (17) Shaw. ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Class 1. Position: (4) Gregory; (6) Olive; (17) Heffer; (21) Beatteay; (23) Fenwick; (26) Morrow.

Class 2. Position: (1) Estabrooke; (6) Shaw, Warner.

HISTORY.

Class 1. Position: (5) Brady.

Class 3. Position: (1) Wilson.

BOTANY.

Class 1. Position: (2) Warner; (5) Estabrooke; (6) Olive; (7) Fenwick; (16) Shaw; (18) Beatteay.

Class 2. Position: (14) Morrow.

Class 3. Position: (2) Heffer.

CHEMISTRY.

Class 1. Position: (2) Morrow.

Class 2. Position: (1) Estabrooke; (2) Fenwick, Heffer; (3) Gregory; (4) Olive; (5) Beatteay, Brady, Warner.

Class 3. Position: (3) Wilson.

PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

Class 1. Position: (1) Brady; (7) Wilson.

In the report of the Board of Examiners, the Girls' High School, St. John, is fre

quently mentioned for commendation, and, indeed, it is most favorably referred to in connection with every subject in which the examiners considered the work praiseworthy.

MEDALS AND PRIZES.

The winners of Medals at the Mid-summer Examinations were as follows:

The Corporation Gold Medal.-Frank Green, Standard XI, Grammar School. The Parker Silver Medal.-William Clarke, The Governor-General's Silver Medal.-Maggie Morrow, Standard. XI, High School. The Governor-General's Bronze Medal.-Charles Manning, Standard XI, Grammar School.

No prizes were offered this year by the Board, but very many were sent to the teachers by parents and friends of the children, for distribution at the school exhibitions which were held just before the summer holidays. Most of these were books suited to the grade of pupils for whom they were intended. The annual gift of books from Colin H. Livingstone, Esq., of New York, numbering 60 volumes, was received and distributed among deserving pupils. The deep interest in the public schools of his native city, which this handsome donation shows Mr. Livingstone to retain year after year, is very gratifying, and is thankfully recognized by the Board of School Trustees.

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS.

The following pupils of the Boys' Grammar School matriculated, and have entered upon the Courses of the several Institutions mentioned below:

Stephen Ritchie and Frank Green entered the Sophomore year of the New Brunswick University, and J. D. Murray entered Freshman year of the same Institution as a partial course student.

Harry King entered Acadia College, George Mulligan, Dalhousie College, and J. K. Scammell, McGill University.

The following pupils of the Girls' High School passed the examination, matriculating them to the N. B. University: Maggie Morrow, Harriet S. Olive, Loretta L. Shaw, Edna M. Gregory, Lilian E. Fenwick, Elizabeth Beatteay, C. Gertrude Heffer.

Miss Etta Shaw has entered upon a course in the N. B. University, Miss Olive at Mount Allison, and Miss Warner at McGill University.

ARBOR DAY.

Arbor Day was observed in the greater number of the schools. Window gardening and special lessons relating to Plant Life formed the chief features of the work for the day.

EXHIBITION OF SCHOOL WORK.

In response to the request of the Directors of the Exhibition Association that the manual work of the schools should be exhibited in connection with the International Exhibition, arranged to be held in St. John in the months of September and October, the Board directed its officers to undertake the work and make all necessary provisions for its successful execution. Accordingly, previous to the close of the First School Term, samples of the work of the pupils were secured from the schools of all standards. These were subsequently grouped and prepared for use when the building should be ready and space allotted. allotted. When that time arrived the collection was arranged in the

booths over the main entrance of the building, and, together with the rest of the Educa tional Exhibits from other places, formed a most attractive portion of a very successful exhibition.

In arranging the large amount of material sent in by the pupils of the schools, the chief objects sought to be secured were the presentation of actual school and class work without special selection; the progressive character of the work; and the development of the mental and manual powers in the processes of the work.

These processes may be briefly illustrated. Thus: A child is taught to recog nize a sphere or ball by handling it, and to tell what it observes with regard to it. Then he is required to reproduce the form in clay. Next to draw its outlines on blackboard, slate, or paper. Then to cut out the form from paper, and after it has cut a sufficient number of such pieces, to arrange them in such symmetrical patterns as its taste or knowledge suggests, and paste them on card-board. The child is also required to print or write as soon as possible a simple description of what he has made, drawn, or designed. As the powers of observation are developed, the child comes to recognize the same form as the basis of other figures (apples, oranges, etc.), and proceeds to reproduce them in clay, and paper, and by drawing, and descriptive writing. And so on through the several forms and up through the respective standards of instruction. By such means it is soon manifest how clear and intelligent an idea the child has of the object it is called upon to treat, and of its capabilities. Thus we have in these processes the quickening of the powers of observation, the training of eye and hand for the purposes of reproduction or description, and the general application of knowledge to practical uses How all this was exemplified in the Educational Exhibits may now be told.

Upon the tables of the booths were exposed the models made by the pupils in clay and paper, and upon the walls were shown the designs in paper-cut and pasted-and arranged from the First Standard upward. Indeed, the work of the Kindergarten (which had been carried on as an introduction to Standard I) was also shown, cover ing the same class of work, together with mat weaving, paper chain-work, modelling, etc.

In bound volumes upon tables and shelves, and also upon the walls, in sheet form, were also arranged, by Standard, the drawings of the children, from the first crude attempt to form a right line to some finely-finished and artistic work in the reproduction of pictures and drawings from natural objects.

In other bound volumes, and also on single sheets, was shown the work of the pupils in printing, print-script, writing, composition, number and arithmetic, algebra, geometry, botany, physics, and physiology.

The walls of one booth were devoted to sewing and knitting, carefully arranged to show the progress in steps by which the art of needlework is taught in our schools, from the threading of a needle to the completed garment-dress, skirt, shirt, cap, etc.,-together with patching, darning, and marking.

The pupils of the High and Grammar schools had prepared and exhibited charts— historical, literary, botanical, anatomical, and physiological-of which over fifty hung upon the walls. They also displayed, in beautifully-illuminated board covers, botanical collections, illustrating their summer field work. Of this class of exhibit, twenty-two young ladies showed two hundred and eighty-two specimens, carefully mounted, and