DOVER COLLEGE.—A DISCLAIMER.
[TO THS EDITOR OF THS SPEOW.TOR."] Srn,—My attention has been directed to an article in your issue of the 7th inst. on the subject of the opening of this college by Earl Granville, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, in which you speak of the college as "a new middle-class school and college, established for the sake of providing a good, sound, secondary education, at a very moderate price." As the terms " middle-class school " and " secondary education " are calculated to injure the prospects of the college, I shall feel obliged if you will allow me space in your next issue to say that the college has not been established as a middle-class school, and the position in life of the pupils who have already joined shows this to be the case. The education given is not of a secondary character, but of a first-class order.—I am, Sir, &c., Wor.nasToN KNOCKER, Hon. Sec.
Castle Hill House, Dover•, October 11, 1871.
Our correspondent does not appear to understand the technical meaning of " Secondary" Education, which applies to all education short of the University period. We regret to hear that the college is not meant for the middle-class, and should hardly have noticed it at all, if we had known that it was intended chiefly for pupils whose " position in life" is so distinguished.—En. Spectator.]
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