A Letter to the Viscount Palmerston, M.P. &c. &c. &c. 63761 [Title: A Letter to the Viscount Palmerston, M.P. &c. &c. &c. on the Monitorial System of Harrow School] [Author: Charles John Vaughan] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/7/6/63761 ] [Files: 63761-0.txt; 63761-h.htm] For those wishing to know: In 1854 some in the UK were becoming uncomfortable with the bullying taking place in public schools. Vaughan, head of one of the most famous England school (Harrow), wrote to Lord Palmerston (then Home Secretary) defending that Harrow let the older boys use corporal punishment on the younger ones. Three years later Tom Brown's Schooldays was published. All the best, David, England, cold, raining and now dark