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...happy solution of the problem of the teacher's vacation is suggested by Mrs. Alfred Lyttleton, who accompanied Lady Astor on her American trip last year. Provided sufficient money is collected, she proposes to arrange to send English school teachers to America for their summer holidays. And she hopes that the first Odyssey of pedagogues will inspire American philanthropists to send American teachers to England...
...been "ragged" for poor playing in a football game. The headmaster of Christ's Hospital was reported to have said that "If a boy acts badly as a linesman a mild kick is not an excessive punishment." The result was a storm of indignant protests. Then Canon Lyttleton of Eton published his opinions including the sentences quoted above. Followed more indignation. Interviews with headmasters, teachers and laymen representing every shade of opinion began to appear in the press. And apparently the controversy is still raging, with the late Lord Salisbury, whose public school experiences were much discussed...
...comes first in the contents of the number. This is followed by "Yale and Harvard as Rivals and Friends," by Professor Charles R. Lanman, Yale '71; "The Yale Spirit," a delightful appreciation of Yale life and ways of thought, by Professor Barrett Wendell; and "Retrospect and Confession," by Lyttleton Fox, Yale 1902, the president of the Yale Literary Magazine. An ode to Yale College by Henry Wyman Holmes is sincere and powerful...