The Great Evil of the Present System,

make no attempt to grapple with it, in fact. As everybody knows, the charges brought against our present system may all be traced to the manner in which the school work is tested, and what the colony is asking for is some radical change on this point, so that scholars and teachers alike may be relieve! from the pressure under which they at present labor, the feverishness which marks our school life may disappear, and mental and moral training take the place of cramming. Judging by the results arrived at by the Conference, it would seem that the members had never heard of these complaints, although, if so, they are the only persons in the colony who have not. A minor reform in the supervision of schools was, indeed, suggested and debated, but not adopted by the Conference. I refer, of course, to the proposal to make the