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shall merit it shall remain in the college until they shall respectively arrive at between fourteen and eighteen years of age; they shall then be bound out," etc. Progress in the school-room is deemed the only proper standard of merit, and all pupils who become fifteen years of age and fail to reach the fourth school, after from five to nine years' instruction, will be required to give place to those on the list of applicants for admission.

The provision in the founder's will that boys of a certain grade shall be "bound out" is apparently almost a dead letter, as according to the report only one was indentured as an apprentice, but 139 were granted permission to leave in order to accept employment.