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with boys coining into the army from Eton or Harrow] — You would obtain habits of strict 

 discipline. 



6423. That would be the main point 1 — Yes. 



6424. (Chairman.) At all events you would consider that Latin and foreign languages should 

 be subjects of instruction 1 — Yes, and a certain amount of mathematics. 



6425. {Lord Northbrook.) Do you think that at a military school the discipline would be 

 sufficient to keep the boys fi'om drunkenness or disorder 1 — Yes; it might be made so if the 

 authorities were supported by the public. 



C426. Drunkenness has existed at Sandhurst ? — Ves; and for that reason I should object 

 to such a public school. It prevails both at Woolwich and at Sandhurst. 



His Lordship then withdrew. 



