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6411. It would be for boys younger than 16 ? — Yes. 



6412. {Rev. W. C. Lake.) Do you say that you would wish to see such a college established, 

 or only that you would not object to it ■?—! should like to see it, but my fear is that it would 

 not be established on good principles, from what we have seen. 



6413. What do you think would be right principles on which to establish such a college 1 

 In the first place, I do not think that the military training of the boys would be sufficiently 

 kept up. 



6414. {Lord E. Cecil.) Would you have it a military school, with military organization and 

 discipline, or a semi-civilian school ] — I would have it a purely military school in every sense, 

 with very severe discipline. 



6415. {Chairman.) You would allow the cadets to pass out at 16 ■? — Yes, they should then 

 pass out into the army. 



6416. At what age would you allow them to go into such an establishment] — At the same 

 age as that at which a boy goes to Harrow, but I would not teach military details there. 1 do 

 not think that it would be necessary. 



6417. Might not such a plan have the effect of depriving a lad of what all would think 

 desirable, namely, the elements of a liberal education ; would it not render his instruction almost 

 too military ■? — I fancy that at first starting the elements of both kinds of instruction are very 

 similar, and that it is only the direction to which both are turned in after life which would make 

 the difference in the one case and in the other. 



6418. Would you have all the teachers officers'? — Yes, or at all events connected with 

 the army. 



6419. You have said, in answer to a previous question, that European oflScers, as distin- 

 guished from English officers, are essentially military, and that they are actuated by a military 

 spirit, and always live in their uniform, and that they are soldiers and nothing but soldiers. 

 Do you think that an unmixed good] — I look to the ultimate object in view. I look to 

 what would make the best fighting animal, and I think that every other consideration ought 

 to be subordinate, so long a you have an army. I do not wish to bind myself to the details. 

 I think that the primary object is to make as good a soldier as you can. 



6420. {Ljord Northbrook.) Supposing that cadets joined the army at 16, what would be the 

 military instruction which you would expect to get from the school ] — Elementary instruction 

 in sketching and drawing, and other kindred objects. 



6421. And field fortification and so forth ] — That is rather a matter of detail, but I would 

 give elementary instruction in that subject also. 



6422. What particular advantage do you expect to derive from this school as compared 



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