SCHOOLS 



Sir Robert Inglis, the member for Oxford University, was the hero 

 of the Toryism of the reform days, and was succeeded by another old 

 Wykehamist of the same stamp Sir William Heathcote. The names 

 of Rolfe and Lefevre bring Goddard's days very near to our own. 



Of all Goddard's scholars the most famous name is that of the man 

 who followed his own profession, and adopted his principles Thomas 

 Arnold, headmaster of Rugby. His name, not so much through Dean 

 Stanley's sober life as through Thomas Hughes's romance in Tom Brown's 

 Schooldays^ has made the tour of the world. 



Arnold had the advantage, after his experience of the true method 

 of trust and self-government of boys under Goddard, to see the false 

 method of suspicion and usher-spying under Gabell, the most potent 

 object-lesson that a vigorous mind could receive. 



The most signal instance of Dr. Goddard's conscientiousness 

 markedly reproduced in his pupil Arnold was his action in regard to 

 the payments made by boys in college. It had become the practice 

 when and how does not exactly appear that though the scholars were 

 by statute and in theory ' free scholars,' they should pay ten guineas a 

 year as ' a gratuity ' for the benefit of the headmaster and usher. In 

 1776 this practice was solemnly condemned at a scrutiny as ' contrary to 

 the obvious intention of the Founder, a grievous imposition upon the 

 "pauperes et indigentes scholares," and "grave scandalum " to the College 

 itself.' But the only remedy recommended was that the ' children ' 

 should be admonished ' to inform their parents or friends that they 

 should not present ' the gratuities for the future, while the warden 

 and fellows were advised to stop the practice. But as they could only 

 stop it by paying the masters 'out of the revenues of the College for their 

 labour and trouble in the discharge of their offices,' that is, out of the 

 surplus divided by the Fellows, the Injunction remained a dead letter. 

 The only difference made was, that in the bills the charge was entered 

 as * gratuity, if allowed.' Dr. Goddard, in 1834, some years after his 

 retirement, gave 25,000 Consols, in trust, to pay the income to the 

 headmaster in lieu of the ' gratuities,' saying, ' It has been such a distress 

 of conscience to me to receive this money, I am determined no head- 

 master in future shall suffer the same.' Dr. Goddard did not die till 

 1845, wnen the Goddard Scholarships, a prize of 25 a year tenable for 

 four years, formerly competed for at Christmas, now in July, and awarded 

 to the head boy in the examination, were founded in his honour. 



On Goddard's retirement, again a second master, Henry Dison 

 Gabell, succeeded. He is said to have been an excellent teacher, but a 

 sad falling-off after Dr. Goddard. He adopted the principle, not of 

 trust, but of mistrust of his boys. A boy returning a day late on 

 account of an aunt's illness a suspicious reason certainly was told, 

 * You have been a long time fudging up that aunt of yours.' And 

 another time going round chambers in the evening, seeing a boy with 

 a black handkerchief round his throat for a sore throat, he whipped 

 him in spite of all asseveration for going into bed with his clothes on. 



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