Excerpt from Report of the Committee to the General Meeting of the British and Foreign School Society: November 1814 To excite laudable emulation, to reward industry, and to pro mote improvement, an order of merit has been instituted for 52 boys. None can belong to this honourable order except such as are able to repeat the Rules of the School, the Multi plication Table, all the Tables of Money, Weight, and Mea sure, and the Ten Commandments. They must also beara good character' at School among their companions, and at home among their friends; and they must maintain this cha racter; for, if they lose it, they will certainly be degraded from the order. Their privilege, as members of it, is, besides a decoration, access to a suitable 'library of books, consisting of history, travels, the rudiments of the useful arts and sciences, and works of a moral tendency - Much good has already te sulted from the institution of this order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.