The Secretary of the Charity Commission has published an answer
on behalf of the Commission to the criticisms which have appeared in the Spectator and elsewhere on the proposal to divert Dean Colet's endowment from the support of St. Paul's School, to purposes foreign to the wishes of the founder, and hostile to the welfare of what is described in the Times as the " best of London day-schools." The Commissioners justify their proposal to limit one-third of the scholarships to boys from public elementary and minor endowed schools on the ground that as a previous and unworkable scheme formulated by them had not been carried out, it was " imperative " to formu- late another scheme, though the great efficiency of the school as it stands was not denied. It is difficult to see where the " imperative" nature of the demand arose, except in the wounded amour-propre of the Charity Commissioners them- selves. The amended proposal is to leave the scholarships as they were, and to give no facilities to the entry of boys from Board-schools other than those which they enjoy in com- mon with the sons of parents who do not go to the rates for the education of their children. But a yearly sum of £9,000 is to be taken from the increased revenues of Dean Colet's foundation to found two new schools with scholarships limited to the poorer classes.
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