[posted] Posted(#63761, Vaughan)

[David Price]

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