The boarding- houses were well managed, the lagging in them was light, and their tone was good.

Unhappily, in spite of the head master's remonstrances, Froude's father, who had spent a great deal of money on his other sons' education, insisted on placing him in college, which was then far too rough for a boy of his age and strength.

On account of what he had read, rather than what he had learnt, at Buckfastleigh, he took a very high place, and was put with boys far older than himself.

The lagging was excessively severe.

The bullying was gross and unchecked.