There are impressive and solemn moments in the life of a large school which remain in the memory as something beautiful and great.

The close of a year, with its retrospect and anticipation, its restrained emotion from the pathos which attends all endings and beginnings in life, fills even the younger children with some transient realization of the meaning of it all, and lifts them up to a dim sense of the significance of existence, while for the elder ones such days leave engraven upon the mind thoughts which can never be effaced.

These deep impressions belong especially to old-established schools, and are bound up with their past, with their traditional tone, and the aims that are specially theirs.

In this they cannot be rivalled.

The school-room at home is always the school-room, it has no higher moods, no sentiment of its own.
There are diversities of gifts for school and for home education; for impressiveness a large school has the advantage.