Show changes in an sli school in 1824 mr milnes gaskell writes from eton that an upper boy got spurs and rode some of us lower boys over a leap le a p positively impossible to bo be leaped over with a person on your back and every time which is every time we cannot accomplish it ho he spurs ua us violently and my thigh is quite sore with the inroads made by those dreadful spurs my new coat is completely ruined in the next year ashley minor a eon son of lord shaftesbury died in consequence of a fight which lasted two hours and a quarter on the same evening the quarrel originated about a seat in the upper school dr keate spoke about the ead sad event to the school three days later he blamed the boys for letting the fight go on so long but was not to be seduced into any bamby pamby peace at any price sentimentalism he said not that I 1 object to all fighting in itself on tho cont contrary I 1 like to see a boy return a blow such Sucha a state of things lias has fortunately tuna tely entirely disappeared a clergyman ahead head a master a doctor of divinity i however much ho he might feel that the meek acceptance of injuries was not the sign of a keen and generous character yet would now hesitate to mark fighting with his approval before an audience of boys whom ho he was bound by statute to instruct in christian principles national review |