Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

U611/

List of Items

Section A:

Schooling (1833-1835) (2 items)

1 20 August 1833 – 28 June 1834 School Report Book for Denis M. Lane (Denny Lane) at Mr Hamblin’s and Doctor Porter’s School, South Mall, Cork. Contains graded results by day of the week in subjects such as Greek Testament, Lucian, Homer, Xenophon, Latin, Terence, Juvenal, Livy, Virgil, Horace, Exercise, Euclid (Geometry), Algebra, History, Writing. Also records Conduct, Morning Attendance and After Breakfast Attendance. Note at end of each page, such as ‘N.B – 9 is the highest degree of merit’. Lane receives a ‘9’ or an ‘8’ for all items. Also recorded are holidays, such as, ‘Mayors Day’ in October. With Various jottings and sketches on inside covers depicting portraits, mathematical formulae, notes. 42pp 2 18 August 1834 – 25 April 1835 School Report Book, as U611/1. Enclosed is a certificate of premium to Lane for superior answering in Roman History public examinations at the Classical, Mathematical and Commercial Academy, Wellington Place, St.Patrick’s Hill, Cork; signed by Mr Henderson, Principal. 52pp & 1 item

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