26 JULY 1902, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR THE "SPECTATOR. ")

SrR,—Your correspondent, "L. J. R.," in the Spectator of July 19th has quoted a passage from the Life of Edward Thring anent Dr. Keate's well-known colossal flogging, in which there is a most singular mistake. He tells us that " all names on the alphabetical list of the school from M down• wards were subjected to this manifestly impartial dis- cipline." This is what really happened. All boys in twq forms--the upper and lower remove, I think—some sixty to eighty, were flogged for shirking an imposed " absence " or roll-call. My name begins with " F," and I am one of the few survivors who had to kneel upon the block on that unpleasant