IN PRAISE OF FAGGING.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12408, 25 November 1908, Page 1

IN PRAISE OF FAGGING.

"t^L—cA* X ache^ in a p a P er ° n n P , H^ llc School s^n England" in the . October "Pall Mall Magazine," maintains that^ fagging is "really an excellent and^ essentially a democratic « i'x^V * am sure > ho say s, that the hoys— even the fags themselves—would vote against, its abolition. It makes for equality, and levels up rather than down. Nobody is exempt, except, in rarp cases, Rome young Royalty : and a duke may have to varnish the boots of a poor narson's son. If he doesn'ti varnish them properly he is caned. Mr Vaohell remembers only cno caso of a boy refusing to fag. The headmaster, however, pointed out to his father that he must remove his son if he remained unwilling to conform to the traditions of the school, and in duo time the boy became _a zealous fag. - "