Now all this may seem a most petty and most
parochial matter. What right has a single village to demand attention to its miserable sports, where small girls in knickers cleared a bar at some three feet six inches from the ground ? None whatever, perhaps. And yet some, if you eonsider further. The difference of the spirit of the children in the village, and, indeed, of many of the parents and perhaps of others -who need not he specified, is scarcely credible. Discipline, self-help, team unselfishness, and corporate zest have had a new life. It is long odds that these will be expressed in the career of the children as they are already expressed in the spirit of the village. To my thinking it would be a movement hardly less valuable than, say, the Scouts' and Girl Guides', if the example of such a reformation could be generally followed. Other schools have doubtless enjoyed similar successes, but the form of organization is rare.
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