To give the lads as much as possible the same interests, the same views; to make them all alike feel that they were growing up, not merely English subjects, but English men, was one of the most important social problems in Trinidad.

And the simplest way of solving it was, to educate them as much as possible side by side in the same school, on terms of perfect equality.
The late Governor, therefore, with the advice and consent of his Council, determined to develop the Queen's Collegiate School into a new Royal College, which was to be open to all creeds and races without distinction: but upon such terms as will, it is hoped, secure the willing attendance of Roman Catholic scholars.

{291} Not only it, but schools duly affiliated to it, are to receive Government aid; and four Exhibitions of 150 pounds a year each, instead of two, are granted to young men going home to a British University.

The College was inaugurated--I am sorry to say after I had left the island--in June 1870, by the Governor, in the presence of (to quote the Port of Spain Gazette) the Council, consisting of-- The Honourable the Chief Judge Needham.
J.Scott Bushe (Colonial Secretary).
Charles W.Warner, C.B.
E.J.

Eagles.
F.Warner.
Dr.L.A.A.