New-York tribune., 1908-06-28

The number of famous who have knet
before it is very great. The late Lord Sails
bury was fogged while kneeng against it no
less than eighteen times. And the Rev. DR..
Hawtrey one occasion. through error.
ffogged the whole party of thirty candidates for
confirmation, the paper with their names on 1t
having been mistaken by him for the punish
ment list which sent up to him every day.
While fogging is common in these great Eng
lish public schools, the masters endeavor, so far
as possible, to encourage the boys to take the
law into their own hands, TO govern themselves,
and to avoid the Intervention of the faculty in
matters of discipline and especially of honor.
Occasionally, when some lad has been guilty of
a disgraceful offence, his schoolmates give him
the choice of taking punishment at their hands
or of having the matter dealt with by the head
master. He usually chooses the former. l can
recall one such instance during my schoolboy
days A particularly gross piece of dishonesty
in money matters had been traced to a youth of
about eighteen. high up in the school, and
the point of taking up his residence at the Uni
versity of oxford. The captain Of the school
assembled all the boys. six hundred
seven hundred of them. in the great hall, and
having summoned the culprt to stand forth. in
ouired whether he would prefer to be sent up
to the mead master for fioggng, and subsequent
hands of his schoolmates. He chose the latter
ENTIRE SCHOOL Furnishes
Four stout hazel sticks were then brought in
and the captain powerful and athletic young
fellow broke three of them across the shoulders
of the offender. who stood up alone in the centre
of the hall with 500 pairs of scornful eyes upon
him and took his twenty -four strokes without
finching Then we ranged ourselves in two
,.-.- af
to the other armed ourselves with straps
knotted towels. with whatever, in fact. we
could lay our hands upon. and forced him to
run up and down the entire line The punish
ment thus inflicted severe that he was
confined to the infirmary for a fortnight after
ward. At the end Of that time he left for home
of his own accord, In compliance with the prom
Use exacted from him the evening of his
castigation. He was thus saved the disgrace of
public expulsion. which would not only have
affected the fair and prestige of the
school, but would also have proved his bane
throughout life, barring him from admission
to universities, to clubs. from government SER
vice and to the legal profession. In one word
blasting his whole career. OF course the mas
ters must have known of the whole proceeding
but, is customary in such cases, they closed
their eyes, being perfectly content to allow the
lads to attend to the maintenance OF the honor
OF the college.
1t would be difficult TO give here q code of
college ethics. They differ in almost every uni
versity and school in matters of minor detail
which often. nevertheless, interesting quaint
and picturesque. But in questions OF individual
and collective honor they all maintain very much
the same high principles and standards Every
infracton entails its penalty, generally at the
hands of the lads themselves and as the aver
age college boy, being hard TO himself is dis
posed TO be hard to his schoclmate the punish
ment is usually severe. and therefore effective
II instils principles which last throughout ones
existence and exercise a beneficial influence upon
ones entire life EX-ATTACHE