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5. The College is t1so fortunate in its buildings, which are fine and spacious
both for teaching and residontial purposes. I was favourably impressed by
the heauty of the surroundings as well as by the care iaken in maintaining
the property ; ond also by the well-kept playing fields and by other facilitios
for physical exorcise end recreation.
Many improvemonts have bcon mado during the last year. Anew T.mple
has been built ; the premiscs have becn fencod ; the beautiful ,ardens have
been extended ; hygienic kitchens have been added.
The tenching and residential buildings, however, are so constructed that
alterations in design cannot easily bo cffectcd. The smill size of the class-
rooms precludcs material additions to their seating capacity and therefore tho
number in cach class must remain comparetively small ; the boarding houscs
contain comparatively small reoms and cunnot therefore be conveniently
transformed into dormitorics.
6. Agrcat woakness of the Colloge is that the boarding housesaro scattered
over tho College grounds and are so constructed that the maintenance of goed
discipline is by no means oasy. Moreover, as theso boarding houses (oxcopt
Ajmer Houso, and Colvin House which now accommodates post-diploma
boys) aro maintained by individual States, the Colloge, oxclusive alroady
in its rulos of admission, bocomes cvon more exclusive in its intornal organisa -
tion. The inevitable tendency is for boys to lose the benefits of the full
corporate life which the Collego should provide, and to centre their interosts
and. activitios in tho limited sphere of an oxclusive boarding house. The
boys are thusin danger of living dual lives ; ono portion of the day being spont
in the olnss-rooms and playing ficlds, and the other portion undor tho control
of houso mastors who have little or no concern with the teaching and life of
the placo.
A radical curo would be for tha soveral States to pool their resources and
to hand over the control of boarding houses to the Colloge unrosorvedly, sava
that it would not ba unreasonable for those States which now maintain board-
ing housos to recoive a guarantee that an appropriate number of vacancics
in the common boarding houses shall be resorved for thoir nominoes. The
boys nood not then bo distributed betweon the boarding houses on the basis
of tho States to which thoy bolong, but rather on that of ago or of other suitablo
linos of distinction. Mombers of tho teaching staff could similarly be distri-
buted between the sovoral boarding houses for tho purpose of supervision.
By those means, tho unity of the College would bo safeguarded and its
corporate life would be enriched.
7. This ideal is by no means casy of attainment but it should not be lost
sight of. It is at loast satisfactory that stops have already beon takon in
the right direction.
Tho boarding housos are now combined into two groups undor tho general
control of the two senior mombors of tho staff. Not only has discipline beon
improved theroby, but boarding housos have been brought into closer
harmony with cach other and with tho Collogo itsolf. Tho salutary offoct
of this innovation, however, has been lessened by tho fact that the burdon
has fallen upon two nfastors only who have many other calls upon their time
antl onorgy. This innovation, therofore, cannot becomo really satisfactory
unless and until the staff is sufficiontly qualified to onablo cach boarding
house to be placod under tho suporvision of a single membor of the tenching
alaff. A woll-organisod rosidential system should be a distinguishing foaturn
of an institution such as Mayo Colloge.
8. An oven moro important innovation has boon tho handing ovor of
control of boarding houses by the States to tho College, which practico haa
beon commended by tho Council. It is most satisfictory thet control of four
of the boarding houses has already béon thus handod ovor. This innovation
should be extended to all hoarding houses, not only in their own interosts
but also in those of tho College. - -
9. Another grave defoct in tho pst has boon that the boarding housos,
oxclusive already in their field o recruitment, have beccomo cven moro
exclusive in consequence of tho practico of individual messing. Thore is danger