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hope I may be allowed the privilege of a few lines of rejoinder to some of your correspondents. Mr. Arnold Lunn desertion my previous letter as "latently personal and most offensive" I am sorry it should have given him this impression. I have no knowledge whatever of Mr. Alec Waugh except what may be gleaned from the pages of The Loon, of Youth, and I set out to :Mack not the man but some of the views expressed in his hook.
][ore lima sae of your correspondents has asked which of the
Fernhurst masters I described as "blatant and unmitigated cads." Here are two: Janke, who persuaded two boys to "own up" by promising not to report them to the chief, and then promptly reported them; and Macdonald—" one of the most splendid men that Fernhurst has ever owned on its staff "—who habitually held his colleagues up to ridicule before his class, and who described Farrar's edition of St. Luke to the class in these words: "Filth and garbage! Take it away and put it down the water-closet." (" He had a genius for spontaneous comments.") I should also put Princeford, Rogers, Christy, and Claremont in the same category. I admit that the description does not apply to Ferrers or " The Bull," though possibly each would have applied it to the other.
I am sorry to see that some of your correspondents know of schools in whkh the Fernhurst tone prevails. I still continue to believe that such schools are exceptional. I base this belief upon an intimate knowledge of three Public Schools and upon the fact that readers of The Loom of Youth—men of various schools, ages, and professions—whom I have asked: "Is this, in your opinion, a true description of a Public School? " have ell replied to the same effect " Not of any school that I know of."—I am, Sir, as
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