The Question Generally.

A conference, being of the view that the people ought to proceed to test the legality of the Education Board's action, have in structed a sub-committee to obtain professional advice on the question, in what way it would be wisest and best to take that action, for the practical purpose of securing the continued maintenance of the High School as now constituted. It has been suggested that the public meeting, instead of leaving this special matter of abiding constitution to the yearly Schools' Committee for ordinary general administration, should entrust the care of it to a Defence Committee elected for this purpose, which may include members of School Committee, and at whose request some one citizen, guaranteed against expense of the action, might be the party in whose person the case shall be tried. Even here at the outset the advice of a practical expert would be of value for the purpose of making sure that the mode of proceeding is wisely selected. But supposing a party to be constituted in the right way, and arrangements made for directing and maintaining the action, there is, also and especially, need of such skilled advice regarding the nature and time and place of the action that should be taken on the citizens' behalf in the case.