"The internat is nearly unknown in Germany....

The director (of the gymnase) informs parents where families can be found willing to receive boarders and he must satisfy himself that their hospitality is unobjectionable....

In the new gymnases there is no room for boarders."-- Demogeot et Montucci, "Rapport sur l'enseignement secondaire en Angleterre et en Ecosse," 1865 .-- (I venture also to refer the reader to my "Notes sur l'Angleterre," for a description of Harrow-on-the-Hill and another school at Oxford, made on the spot.)] [Footnote 6349: Taine, "Notes sur l'Angleterre," P.139.The pupils of the superior class (sixth form), especially the first fifteen of the class (monitors), the first pupil in particular, have to maintain order, insure respect for the rules and, taking it all together, take the place of our maitres d'etude.] [Footnote 6350: Breal, "Quelques mots, etc.," pp.281, 282.

The same in France, "before the Revolution,...

except in two or three large establishments in Paris, the number of pupils was generally sufficiently limited....