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I heartily agree in your condem-
nation of the "barrack system".
The admirable flaw pursued
at the School to which I am now
attached secures (though by a different arrangement) in the happiest
way those very advantages of
house -- like influences and comforts
which the Trustees of the Univeristy
are so anxious to make a brief
feature of their insitution.
Here it is proposed to follow the
[place?] of the Principal English Public, to have the
boys distributed in different
houses; but these houses are to
be under the control of Masters,
the boys are to live in their
faculties. Thus we think the
refinement and comfort of
house will be secured as far as
can be at school, while that
watchful helpful care of mind
and body which a boy needs
can be given more certainly
+ more directly than where a