ram THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' SrR,—As you have so
kindly noticed in the Spectator of January 17th the success of one of our Grecians, J. D. Beazley (not Beezley), in climbing the ladder of learning, may I be allowed to add some additional information which may be of general interest ? Of six Grecians who succeeded in winning scholarsdiips in the first week of competition at Oxford and Cambridge, not only Beazley, but two others began their career in an elementary school. Of the three, two began in a Board-school, and one in a voluntary Church school. Two of the scholarships were for classics, and one for mathematics, and all three were the first in each case. Last year also, daring the Head-Mastership of the Rev. Richard Lee, out of eight scholarships, two were gained by boys who began in elementary schools,—one for classics, and one for mathema tics. It is also an interesting fact that of these three classical scholars all be-in Greek, and one began Latin, at thirteen, years of age. Cortainly these boys afford a fine object-lesson of the value of late beginnings in classics. Their success must be a source of great gratification to those who helped to rear the ladder of learning by the new scheme for Christ's Hospital initiated in 1891, while those who had fears about the removal of the school to the country must be glad to find the; at any rate, the working power of the boys has not suffered. thereby.—I am, Sir, &c.,
ARTHUR W. UPCOTT.
Christ's Hospital, West Horsham.
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