“I have not mentioned this last to any one but Mr. Payne, for several reasons, one being that I am ambitious for the cause of education and especially for the _mixture_ of sexes; if the College of Preceptors would take up the idea, it might be better left to them. Our board might then rent to them our present house. If the Preceptors _won’t_ do it, then I would urge our board to try the question. “Our chairman thinks this professional aspect of teaching ridiculous. I remained silent while he was speaking, as I am gradually growing into the idea that _teaching_ is one of the noblest professions, not second even to medicine—one does with the _body_, the other with the immortal _soul_! “But one point will be to carry first the _half-time_ lower school; no doubt the Brewers will warm to this, if I can persuade them. This school might positively be built on _their_ estate, near Camden Street. The Danish model, I mean!” Footnote 10: Mrs. Fraser died within a year or so of her marriage in 1873, and Miss Buss writes: “One sad cloud has overshadowed us—the death of my dear old pupil and recent fellow-worker, Emma Maclean (Mrs. Fraser).... As I write, my eyes fill with tears at the thought of that fair young life thus early cut down.... You know how she stood at my side in all the recent musical changes, but you cannot know what a wonderful teacher she was. She inspired her pupils, and her power was so great that no difficulty in managing them ever occurred. I have now to find a successor to her; replace her I cannot.” A Musical Scholarship was founded in memory of Mrs. Fraser. The following letter, written by Miss Buss, appeared in the autumn of 1872:— “SCHOOL-HOURS. “_To the Editor of the ‘Times.’_ “SIR,—Having had the opportunity recently of becoming acquainted with the system pursued in the Primary Schools of Sweden and Denmark, it has occurred to me that we may learn something from our Scandinavian neighbours with regard to the very important question: hours of attendance. “One great difficulty we have to face is so to arrange the hours of school that the children shall be able to attend school and yet find time for work. “Throughout Denmark education is compulsory, the parents being liable to fine and imprisonment for neglecting to send their children to school; but the difficulty of combining school attendance with freedom for work is met by the simple plan of holding school twice a day for different sets of children. Five hours being the required school attendance, one set of children attend from 8 o’clock to 1, with an interval for recreation at 11, and another set from 1 to 6 o’clock, also with a short interval.