_Of the Pupils_, _and System of Education_.
RULE I. The Pupils shall be admitted as prescribed by Rule VIII, Section
I.; but no Pupil shall be received into the School, until he shall have
acquired some knowledge of Reading and Writing, and of the two first
Rules of Arithmetic.
RULE II. An efficient System of Education shall be adopted; embracing
the Latin, Greek, French, and English Languages and Literature;
Composition; Elocution; the Mathematics; and Drawing; and Lectures on
subjects connected with the Sciences and Arts, shall be occasionally
delivered by the Masters and others to all the Pupils, under the sanction
of the Committee, which the Proprietors, and Parents of Nominees, shall
be at liberty to attend.
RULE III. The Madras System of Education, as practised at Charter House
School, shall be adopted, as far as it may be found available.
RULE IV. A portion of the Scriptures and Prayer shall be read at the
commencement of the Morning, and the termination of the Afternoon, School
each Day.
RULE V. A Public Examination of the Pupils shall take place in the week
previous to the Summer Vacation; the mode of such Examination to be under
the direction of the Committee.
RULE VI. Eight days Holidays are to be allowed at Christmas, commencing
on Christmas Eve, and ending on New Year’s Day; and Five Weeks in the
Summer, commencing on the Monday nearest the Twentieth of July.—The
Holidays at Easter are to commence on Good Friday, and end on Easter
Monday, both inclusive.—A half Holiday is to be allowed on Wednesday and
Saturday in each week.
RULE VII. The Pupils shall punctually return to the School on the day
succeeding the conclusion of the Holidays, unless prevented by sickness,
(to be certified in writing,) or by any family calamity, under the
penalty of Ten Shillings.
RULE VIII. In the event of any flagrant misconduct on the part of any
Scholar, it shall be competent for the Head Master immediately to suspend
him; and he shall report such suspension, with the cause thereof, to the
Visitors, for the information of the Committee, who shall decide thereon,
and may, if they see fit, confirm such suspension of the offending Pupil;
but an appeal shall lie from the Proprietor on whose Share the Scholar
was admitted to the School, to a General Meeting of Proprietors to be
convened for that purpose.