AN ASSISTANT-MASTER ON FELSTED SCHOOL.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE ".SPECTATDR."] SIli,—" The Chairman of the Trustees," in your last number, speak- ing of the period immediately preceding Mr. Grignon's dismissal, describes the school as being in a state of " anarchy." The word "anarchy," applied to a school, would naturally be understood to mean a want of proper order and discipline among the boys. If this be the sense intended, the Chairman, who necessarily de- pends on others for his information about the school, has been very grossly misinformed. I have been an Assistant-Master here for more than two years ; during that time there has never been
the slightest approach to anarchy, on the contrary, the discipline has always been excellent.
There is, indeed, another sense in which it is possible the Chairman might use the word "anarchy." He may mean that the late Head Master was not always properly subservient to his House-Steward. Anarchy in this purely Felstedian sense there may have been.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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