Public School Gladiators

- The "school board boy" is knocking at the door. and {he young gladiators turned out at Eton, Barrow and Bu are rapidly coming, i:i their favorito parlance, to be "nowhere." This is the opinión of Dr. }ütchell Banks, proir of asatomy at üniversity college, Liverpool, and his reason is, says the Dondon Daily News, that "bra in this country have gone out of fashion. while "the worship of musele and bone have been carricd too far." Woll ■ the Germán sehoolmaster say that the English boy plays at his work and works at his play. ür. Mitchell Banks has asked many a proud mother about her son at some public school, and has been told witli a radiant air: "Oh, he is doing splendidly, getting on so welL" This rneans that he is captain of the school eleven, or has g-ot into the first footbull team, or is Btroke of the 1 boat. Never by any chance has he heard of the boy's position in his class or form. or iiis projrress in his studies, of the prizes he has gained. "In fact," continuos this authoritj-, "the studious boy is regarded with contempt by the t.rivat majority of his feliows. The vory moetera have to be athletes. One knows the usual stvle of advertisement for a junior master - 'Must be Church of Knf,'land and a good cricketer.' like the crack emigrant ship of former days which was advertised to carry a 'cow and an experienced practitioner.' " Henee too often the expensive education of the Eton, Harrow and Rugby boys is found only to have fitted them to go farming in Manitoba, cattle ranching in Texas, sheep raising in New Zealand, or bartending in Australia.