20 MAY 1949, Page 22

PRECEDENCE AMONG SCHOOLS

Snt,—In last week's A Spectator's Notebook Janus wrote of Manchester Grammar School as "the largest and most important institution of its kind." Will he please tell us how he measures degrees of importance

between schools ?—Yours faithfully, T. W. RUMSBY.

George Dixon Grammar School, Edgbaston, Birmingham 17.

[Janus writes: Mainly by size coupled with scholarship successes and the record of Old Boys.]