I sometimes publish in October an extract from the Cornbridga
Review's list of entrance scholarship winners, with a note on the most successful schools (which in that case are usually Eton and Manchester Grammar). The Oxford Magazine has just published a list for that University. Here, again, a public school, this time Rugby, and a grammar school, this time Bristol, top the list, the former scoring fourteen scholarships and exhibitions and the latter ten. What is significant is that three other grammar schools— King Edward's (Birmingham), Bradford and Manchester, fill three more out of the first half-dozen places, Winchester completing the tale. This is a valuable and timely testimony to grammar-school education, for the production of scholarship-winners means a high standard throughout. Now we rightly have modern and technical secondary schools. It is imperative that they should reach the grammar school standard, not make for the lowering of that standard.
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