HAMLET. _They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance in that_.

SHAKESPEARE.

The Trustees of the School met at Uppingham on March 11th. This was the
earliest opportunity of consulting them collectively on the resolution to
break up the school and to migrate, which had been taken on the 7th. They
sanctioned the breaking up of the school. On the question of its removal
elsewhere they recorded no opinion.

Meanwhile a reconnaissance was being made by one of our body, who was
despatched to visit, as in a private capacity, Borth, and two or three
other spots on the Welsh coasts, while inquiries were also made in other
directions.

On Monday, 13th, the Headmaster left Uppingham for a visit to the sites
which promised most favourably. A deep snow on the ground made the
departure from home seem the more cheerless, but it had melted from the
Welsh hills before we reached them. On Tuesday, the party--which now
consisted of the Headmaster, two of the staff, and one of the Trustees
(whose services on this occasion, and many others arising out of it, we
find it easier to remember than to acknowledge as they deserve)--stayed a
night at the inland watering-place of Llandrindod, one of the suggested
sites. The bleak moors round it were uninviting enough that squally
March day. But the question of settling here was dismissed at once;
there was not sufficient house-room in the place. So next morning we
bore down upon Borth.

The first sight of the place seemed to yield us assurance of having
reached our goal. The hotel is a long oblong building with two slight