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AT THE FORKS OF THE GRAND established. In that year, at the request of the citizens of Paris, a grammar school was established here by the Board of Trustees for Grammar Schools in Brant County, a body appointed by the Crown to administer the grammar schools of the county. And shortly after- wards, the following advertisement appeared in the Paris Star: Paris Grammar School Mr. S. Lightburn A.B. Trinity College, Dublin & A.M. King's College, Toronto Principal Wednesday, September 15, 1852, at 9 a.m. The course of instruction will comprise the Greek and Latin languages, Mathematics, and the usual branches of an English education: Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, History, Geography, etc., 10s a quarter; with Mathematics, 15s.; with classics, 1 pound. Except for a small grant from the government, the school was dependent upon fees for its support: the municipal councils were not required to levy taxes for the support of grammar schools. Thus the board had scarcely enough income to pay the salary of the teacher (about $700 a year), and could not erect a building. In September, Mr. Lightburn opened the new school with twenty boys (no girls were admitted). At first his classroom was in the old village-hall, but later it was moved to a room in the new town-hall. At the end of a year, Mr. Lightburn resigned. His successor, the Reverend P. D. Muir, lasted only a month. While he was in charge, the pupils were "riotous and disorderly", and "broke windows not only in the hall itself but in nearby buildings". When he was dis- charged, he "preferred a complaint against certain parties among his scholars who had caused great annoyance to his school". He left, the records state, "to devote himself to the holy ministry". Evidently he preferred the life of a shepherd to that of a lion tamer. In May, i855, the board advertised in The Globe and in the Maple Leaf (a local paper) for a new headmaster; and since it was expected that some of the applicants would lack a certificate, it passed the following motion: If it might be required to examine any of the candidates, the following members of the Board be appointed as examinators: Rev. E. Clarke, Mathematics; T. N. Bosworth, Esq., Latin; The Rev. David Caw, Greek. From among a number of applicants, the board selected Thos. D. Phillips as headmaster. He remained until December, i856. Next it appointed David Lennox, Esq. A.B. He remained until asked to resign in I858. Then John W. Acres was chosen. He was to remain headmaster of all the Paris schools until 1891, and of the grammar or high school until 1897. Meanwhile the location of the grammar school had been changed. On February 6, i856, the trustees received a letter from the town council "intimating that as they required for their own use the room ~~~~~~~158~~: 158'