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     city—and has a staff of a principal, vice-principal and four 
     
     professors. In connection with the college is a model school, 
     
     with two teachers. This is the only government educational 
     
     institution where fees are charged, the rates being $10.00 for 
     
     the session (year) for students resident in the City of Char- 
     
     lottetown, and $5.00 per annum for country pupils. Gradu- 
     
     ating diplomas were first conferred in 1885, and are of three 
     
     grades—honour,first-class ordinary and second-class ordinary. 
     
     These diplomas are accepted by the faculty of Pine Hill 
     
     Presbyterian Theological College, Halifax, as sufiicient in 
     
     certain subjects for admission to that institution, and by all 
     
     the faculties in McGill University. in the place of the entrance 
     
     examinations. A course of fifteen lectures, dealing with soils, 
     
     manures, and crops, is given to students in the first year— 
     
     fames’ Agrimllurc being used as a text-book. In the second 
     
     year a further course of fifteen lectures is given, treating the 
     
     noxious weeds and common injurious insects. In 1901, man- 
     
     ual training was added to the curriculum of the college, and 
     
     an addition to the college building and staff, with departments 
     
     of nature study, manual training, household science, and a 
     
     gymnasium, is now being made. Among the graduates of 
     
     Prince of Wales are many who have risen to high positions 
     
     on the Island and abroad. 
     
    

    
     Saint Dunstan's (Roman Catholic) College was founded in 
     
     1855, a few years after the closing of Saint Andrew's College, 
     
     the pioneer educational institution of Prince Edward Island. 
     
     It is located in the suburbs of Charlottetown, and is under the 
     
     direction of the bishop of the diocese. In 1892 it was affiliated 
     
     with Laval University, Quebec. The fees are: for board- 
     
     ers, for term of five months, $60.00; day scholars, per term, 
     
     $10.00; day scholars who follow the course in philosophy and 
     
     science, per term, $12.50. The college confers degrees, and 
     
     many students attend from abroad. The Roman Catholic 
     
     Church possesses also two convent schools in Charlottetown, 
     
     and others in different parts of the Island, where boarders 
     
    
   
   
    
     are received. 
     
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