"Outsider" also misses the point in my question re boy scouts. There is no "shifting of ground" in the matter, but only another illustration of the "element of incongruity." I have already pointed out that the school very properly wishes to honour the really creditable performances and record of its former inmates: but the mas-for, who also seeks to do his duty, must resign! If my information is correct, scouting at the IL M. School is "tabu" because it encourages "a military spirit" would seem that it was quite right for their big brothers to go to the front for the express purpose of killing Huns, but it is rather naughty for the little boys in the schoo! to go in for scouting lest they be infected with the microbe of militarism The longest pavigreph, in "Outsider's" letter concerns '"'a hero in peace and war," but it is somewhat irrelevant and does not seem to require any comment. (However, I quite agree that swimming should taught to all boys and girls, and if. I had a son to send to }o0l, other things being equal, I should certainly select one at the seaside
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