I shall probably bring upon myself a host of enemies by this assertion, but it has been weighed and must stand.

Fielding has already put the same view on record: he says: "A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

All the wicked fellows whom I remember at the University were bred at them...." If boarding-school life with its close intimacies between boys from twelve to eighteen years of age were understood by English mothers, it is safe to say that every boarding-house in every school would disappear in a single night, and Eton, Harrow, Winchester and the rest would be turned into day-schools.
Those who have learned bad habits at school or in the 'Varsity are inclined to continue the practices in later life.

Naturally enough these men are usually distinguished by a certain artistic sympathy, and often by most attractive, intellectual qualities.