Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-08

come heavy dull and stupid; disorder and
NEGLECT of lessons are the results, and the
master resorts to punishment which only
| increases without removing the evil.p
Professor Branting, of Stockholm, states
| that it is found, from experience in Sweden,
| that children who were inapt at mental
work, after having been exercised bodily at
gymnastics, "instead of being lazy, dull
and opposed to reading, have become lively
and disposed TO receive instruction"
MORAL EXPECTS.
With reference TO the moral effects of the
drill upon children, Mr.. w. w. Sandell, one
of the governors of the Foundation Gram
mar Schools of the parish Of st. Olave's, in
Southwark, England, ian institution which
contains about five hundred boys, day schol-
ars, chiefly the children of respectable in
habitants, who intend them for trading and
commercial pursuits exclusively states
that the military drill was introduced into
that school about three years ago and that
the schoolmasters uniformly report that it
has had high beneficial influence on the
order and discipline Of the scholars and in
directly on the progress of their tuition. 1t
has entirely changed for the better their
whole personal action and bearing and be-
hayior. The beneficial change it has
wrought is quite marked.
MILITARY AND NAVAL DRILL IN SCHOOLS.
With reference to the value Of the military
and naval drill in schools we have import
ant evidence from many military men. Mr.
S. b. Orchard, the drill master of a school
in the vicinity of London, who was formerly
sergeant in the Third Light Dragons,
states that when he was in the army he had
to drill boys who had attended the Duke of
| York's Schools at Chelsea and the Royal
| Hibernian School, where they had been
taught the drill. He found that they
took the drill in one-third the time it
was usually taken by other recruits who
had been previously undrilled. Mr.. Orch
ard finds that he can effect improvements in
the bodily condition of young boys which he
can only effect with difficulty in older lads
and not at all with men.
With boys, for example, he can effect ex-
| pansions of the chest, which can moi be done
with men. He is confident that the drilled
| boys will make better soldiers than those
| who begin later; that they will be more
confident and courageous, as well as more
apt, and will make better soldiers abroad
and in the field as well as at home and in
| quarters. He is also confident, from OBJ
servation, that those who have been drilled
early, made supple at every joint, and rem
! dered prompt and efficient in action will be
/ worth one-ffth more wages than the ordiu-
ary undrilled laborers. He states that the
teachers of trades express similar opinions
in their experience.
Mr.. William Baker states that when he
was in the army and had to drill recruits, he
occasionally met with individuals to each of
whom from his bearing and action, he said
at once: "In what regiment have you
been ?" The answer was "In none;
was taught the drill at school," He found
the individuals almost ready drilled; they
would be more complete for service in a
quarter Of the time Of the previously un-
drilled.
Lieutenant General Shaw Kennedy, in a
letter expressing his high approval Of Mr..
Chadwick's plan, states that the differences
drawn by that gentleman, under various
heads, can not be contToverted. He is of
opinion that if the measure is carried out it
will be the means of bringing two millions
of men actually under arms in Great
Britain alone, that is excluding Ireland. He
conceives that the effects of military drill
and exercise, and the use of fire arms taught
at schools, would never be forgotten; that
youth so taught would at any future
| pSllOu WIN NSlJ hOSiSO VI prov
tice, renew his knowledge of what he had
been taught,
Sir B. F.. Head conceives that the dull
sounding, but magic little words of COM
mand, "Eyes rightW eyes left" eyes
frontl' '"RigRt turn p cleft turn p
"Right about turn! Left about turn p
"Quick march!n "Halth "Stand at
ease p "Attention" |" &c. would instil
into the minds of young boys the elements,
not of war, but of peace that instead of
making them ferocious, these words would,
to use an expression of Mr.. Rarey S,
"gentle" them, until by learning to be sub
servient to the will Of others they become
fitted to act the part of soldiers. ooh what
use to the community" asks Sir Francis,
lis a man, in any rank of life, if he refuses
to practice the heraldic motto of the Prince
| of Wales, 'Ich dien--I serve ) in short if
| the fellow won't obey?" He considers that
| drill does not make party of recruits any
braver than when they enlisted but in
restraining rather than exciting their cour-
age, it teaches them gradually to exchange
their own will for that of their superior Of
fcer, until complete discipline Yields these
floating particles into a solid mass, which
| twenty times the number of equally brave
but undisciplined men are utterly unable to
resist. He is satisfied that TO whatever
walk of life youth may be called, the
habit of obedience which he would obtain
from q system of school drill would prove
beneficial both to his employees and him
self; and he feels confident that if the sys-
TEN is adopted in the public and private
schools, tall, undrilled young man, like a
raw, unbroken horse, would be considered
as "unserviceable."
|
For the purpose Of giving instruction in
the naval drill, old masts and tackle have
been obtained for some of the training
schools in England, and Mr.. Taffnell has
received expressions of satisfaction from
naval men of the way in which some of the
boys have by these means been tutored as
seamen in pauper schools. In order to form
sailors, ii is necessary to have masts and
sails rugged in the playground, and reg
ular seaman must be engaged to drill the
| boys.
| Mr. Baker has observed that the naval
| drill as given at Greenwich is highly eff
fective. He states that he was on board
the GQnges and the ConWay at a time when
many boys came on board who had been
taught the drill at the Greenwich naval
schools and that they proved to be as
ready and well trained as a man-of-WaTs
men; they were clean and orderly, and as
q class were frst-rate seamen, becoming
petty and warrant officers in greater pro