She probably took steps to remove him from so corrupt an atmosphere as prevailed in that preparatory school, but of this I do not know.
But here let me guard myself from being misunderstood.

I am not making out that every schoolboy is exposed to these temptations; there are boys so exceptionally endowed that they seem to spread a pure atmosphere around them which is respected by even the coarsest and loosest boys in the school.

All I do maintain, with Dr.Butler, is that no school is safe from this danger, that at any time it may prove an active one in your boy's life, and that at the very least you have to guard him from impure knowledge being thrust upon him before nature has developed the instincts of manhood by which she guards her inner shrine.
And now I come to the question of day schools.

As I have already said, I cannot feel but they are more consonant with the order of our life as giving the discipline and competition of numbers without removing the boy from family life, nor do they lend themselves to some of the graver evils of our boarding-schools.

But, alas! in themselves they form no panacea for the evils we are contemplating.