is nearly unknown in
Germany.... The director (of the gymnase) informs parents where families
can be found willing to receive boarders and he must satisfy himself
that their hospitality is unobjectionable.... In the new gymnases
there is no room for boarders."--Demogeot et Montucci, "Rapport sur
l'enseignement secondaire en Angleterre et en Ecosse," 1865.--(I
venture also to refer the reader to my "Notes sur l'Angleterre," for a
description of Harrow-on-the-Hill and another school at Oxford, made on
the spot.)]

[Footnote 6349: Taine, "Notes sur l'Angleterre," P.139. The pupils of
the superior class (sixth form), especially the first fifteen of the
class (monitors), the first pupil in particular, have to maintain order,
insure respect for the rules and, taking it all together, take the place
of our maitres d'etude.]

[Footnote 6350: Breal, "Quelques mots, etc.," pp.281, 282. The same
in France, "before the Revolution,... except in two or three large
establishments in Paris, the number of pupils was generally sufficiently
limited.... At Port-Royal the number of boarders was never over fifty
at one time."--"Before 1764, most of the colleges were day-schools with
from 15 to 80 pupils," besides the scholarships. and peasant boarders,
not very numerous.--"An army of boarders, comprising more than one half
of our bourgeois class, under a drill regulated and overlooked by the
State, buildings holding from seven to eight hundred boarders--such
is what one would vainly try to find anywhere else, and which is
essentially peculiar to contemporary France."]

[Footnote 6351: Breal, ibid., 287, id., "Excursions pedagogiques," p.
10. "I took part (with these pupils) in a supper full of gayety in the
room of the celebrated Latinist, Corssen, and I remember the thought
that passed through my mind when recurring to the meal we silently
partook of at Metz, two hundred of us, under the eye of the censor
and general superintendent, and menaced with punishment, in our cold,
monastic refectory."]

[Footnote 6352: Even though Taine had visited Eton and other English
schools, he appears to have a somewhat rosy picture of life inside these
institutions. I have been 9 years to a similar school and can assure the
reader that the headmaster's wife is no suitable substitute for a real
mother and her table does not replace one's own home. The rector of my
school once stated that boarding schools should only be resorted to when
one could not rem