July 3, 1885.] 



* KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



J^ MAGAZINE OF SCIENCE ^ 



IPUINIYWORDED EXACTLY DESCRIBED 



LONDON ntlB il JULl 3 ls85 



Contents or No 192 



By E chare 



Mysfer es and Moralit es 



Edward Clodd 

 Oar HoDsehold lose Is 



ByE A Butler 

 Notes on Mappmg Central 



taons (/«<«) By Eel 



Proctor 



R chard A Proctor 



the Sky By F E A s 

 ionden e Convent onal E 

 1 hpd r — The Pre enti 



OUR BOYS AT SCHOOL 



Br RicHAED A Peocior 



THE ckith of one of the b js it Km r s Colle-e School 

 tlioiir], ,11 t, t,if t^^ 1 f 11 ^ ,11 probiblj 

 ^■^\\ ^,1 / t f II ^ 1 ti (( disposed 



cise mj 

 ir perlj 



1 



mak «1 1 tit m 



It ineaistome thit the 

 isone^^hich neels^ov cai 

 If theioisono-irtick f ,i t 

 f the top boot t\ p 1 1 1 

 public schooK arc ii 1 1 

 biavest types ff But 1 i 1 1 

 always seemed to mc 1 tl 



system fills to turn a, I I 



the bully and the snt k I 1 



smgulaily ejool li j I 



school 1 IS f T t til I 



such w \ \ 11 11 



lone 1 1 f \ 1 



beciiise it -(^ is s tel 1 I 

 this IS far from beu I 

 ncouiaged by oui ] il 1 1 | 



was encouraged of ol 1 i V 

 boy s while to become a 1 ullj ts s 

 bcmjr bullied If he is of too go 1 

 11 1 of bullying hetomts off t^cisl 

 hsjosit, n If 1 1 t cint 



11 I J I 



qu .ti n f 1 11 I 



tful stnk ( 1 ,t 



lulh sche 1 

 cioss between 

 ;e the boy has 1 



f 1 



1} tone the mischitf may 

 stopped altogethei But 



1st be LOUbtitutcd, m 



Inismt If ti( itL 1 



ill busy communit. s i man cannot take charge or even 

 y, Itch over the educ it ion of his boj s Then boys cannot 

 I ( I ropcrly trained f i the struggle of life at home or 

 tven perhaps, as jnvite pupils, 'where only a limited 

 number can be leceived, an oriangement which is often 



1 



L its lesults as public school training can 



s to send his boys either to a public school 



f 1 1 \\ hich may oi may not be a 



^^ ' liug of the whole system 



1 of all GUI schools The 



'lilt of the system, 



1 i I f 1 bijs IS that by 



' ' 1 of that sweet 



1 I ost thoroughly 



I 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 i i nee It belongs 



tj the d ij s wl en we weie s^\ ig when peihaps had 

 we not been savages we should hi\e been wiped out of 

 existence— the good old times cf the Tukis which the 

 mo 1 m sm \ n lis f % n^ the Jiii res il top boot 

 111 1 "• InhPnl 1 ] tl\ It ^Mlne heldin 

 futu 1 ijeif tii, 1 f li ti jseivatism 



tl t 111 1ml sh ull hi-ie let II It the hst quarter of 

 the nineteenth century a sch ol s-ystem fit only for the 

 1 11 ing of buccaneers and horse thieves 



Tl e vitil defect of our school s\f,tem is that it leaves 

 tl e weikest to go to th i 11 1 -s \ 1 \ who passes 

 threugh the couise of 1 t! system 



must be for a time ai I ijustice ; 



and nearly everj sucl 1 j 1 the yet 



severer oi deal of bem^ f i 1 ( e I e t | ower over 



fresh victims f this st uj id and bi ntal system Is there 



any man living says one who his passed thiough both 

 parts of the school discipline is theie any man living 

 who has ever been to a public school who can pi ice his 

 hind on his heart and saj that at one time r i another his 

 school hfe wis not a J U npcn eaitJ ■' Strong words, 

 lut not (ue whit too strong- F\ i\ f m f timlish 

 cmelty IS ji ictised bv school 1 11 1 .,) 



■(1 tim ^ t enlj s but evil , ],., 



nl e\en }^ pieceit while 1 1 1 he- 



\ because the3 



the 



le outnumbered, 

 1 evil is always 

 eiit than good A bey must be 

 ' " ef bad 



1 1 



f t 

 If I brutal 



reaied that would pio-\enotl 

 who ha-v e any chance of hi 

 want of bettei n-o to a publi 



help! II I I 



them t 1 t i 

 the chief suljeets f th i 

 lia\G been well ihead in 



of tium|s Our gi at me 



public «f I 1 1 f It 1 ■ 



desi It 1 1 



then 1 1 I 



eh 1 « il the;y «ould 

 ■imbits md the conduct 

 who have come out from 

 1 Irit 1 11 TP done so 

 1 1 1 \vttm: 



1 school 



trim 1 I t tl 1 U . .f our 



stlttsm n who hue been it pulli sehoe Is eould hy his 

 hand on his heart and say, ' It was when I was kicked 

 daily, 01 welted with a stump e^e^y ciicket aftemoorij 



