The Committee met to debate the question of what would happen to Bootham and the Mount. Accommodation was available in various places, but there was concern that York would not be a desirable place for boys to be, that York would be ‘glad to be spared the feeding of two or three hundred persons who could not be of any service to the City for staying’, that the ‘one-ness’ of each school would be hard to maintain with pupils scattered about the City, and that it would be asking too much of the kindness of York Friends, and too much of a burden for the staff. No definite decision was reached.
A summary of the Committee minutes of 19th August 1914.