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(as it is called in England) is indeed
extremely advantageous or economical
[???}. This system or one much
similar prevails at Malborough in
England - a school of the first class
where the late Bp. of Calcutta was
Headmaster (though to be sure they had
fine buidlings always created)

For a collge or University this seems
to me a most appropriate system, but
for young boys at school I fear it is
hazardous. Is there not danger that
much of the influence one would hope to
exert might be [???] by the boys'
withdrawal during so many hours of the day
and night from the school proper? Most
parents too will admit that when the
time comes for a boy to go to school it is
rather better than otherwise that he
should be away even from his own home.

Even according to your plan you do not
quite avoid what you term the "barrack
system" as [???] will have some 30 boys
in a dormitory. But in truth that term
hardly describes what we had in our