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Charity Commissioners or the Endowed Schools 
Commissioners or the Board, conscientiously and 
with no kind of indifference to the interests of 
“the poor” and no kind of preference for the 
interests of the rich. 
The idea, indeed, that there is a large reservoir 
of money in many cases misappropriated or diverted 
from the pious founder’s original purpose of edu- 
cating the poor, which might be drawn upon to 
provide funds for the extension of popular education 
and increasing the facilities open to the poor, has 
been very persistent and still survives. It has almost 
always, however, been expressed in general terms, 
and it has been difficult to find a prima facie case 
for further inquiry by a Royal Commission, which 
has sometimes been asked for. The amount of 
endowment money which has been sunk in sites 
and buildings of secondary schools has made great 
inroads upon income and in many cases absorbed it, 
while on the other hand the schools have been made 
accessible to “the poor ” or at all events to those 
who have commenced their education in public 
elementary schools by the system of free places and 
by the provision out of publi: funds of scholarships 
and maintenance allowances. The “i -hwa of 
education has become muc! _reac=- -r.d longer, 
and at the ==-=-=* “me ~». con able ~casure 
of *restorat.. cacewment: weuld make very 
little addi“iep ~ z7ca*ian! opportunities of 
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