Chapter VI: Section VI

_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.