History of the hospital and school in Glasgow : founded by George and Thomas Hutcheson of Lambhill, A.D. 1639-41, with notices of the founders and of their family, properties and affairs / by William H. Hill.

  • Hill, William H. (William Henry), 1837-
Date:
1881
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Credit: History of the hospital and school in Glasgow : founded by George and Thomas Hutcheson of Lambhill, A.D. 1639-41, with notices of the founders and of their family, properties and affairs / by William H. Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    those charged in the Board Public Schools, the Sub-Committee wish emphatically to state that it is essential to the success of the scheme, and to secure the benefits they anticipate from its opera- tion, that the fees, both of the Primary and Secondary Departments, should be so adjusted as to place the education offered, not merely within the reach of well-to-do persons, but of all classes who may be wishful to secure for their sons the advantages of the highest culture, and glad to sacrifice a little in its attainment. On the second branch of the remit—viz., as to the extension of Secondary Schools to other parts of the City—the Committee admit its importance, and state that while they have kept this object steadily in view, they deem it expedient, in the first instance, that the attention of the Patrons should be confined to the efficient working of their School in Crown Street. In the course of their deliberations regarding the provision to be made for educating girls in the Hospital's School in Crown HUTCHESONS' GIRLS' SCHOOL, ELGIN STREET. Street, an opportunity occurred for acquiring buildings in Elgin Street, formerly occupied by the Gorbals Youths' School. Respecting this Institution, it may suffice to state that the