Excerpt from Boys and Their Rulers: Or, What We Do at School Many of our public schools and colleges are noble foundations; still it behoves those who are intrusted with their0management to consider whether they have introduced from time to time salutary reforms consistent with the march of improvement. We are all of us too apt to jog on in the beaten track of our forefathers, rather than study to hew out for ourselves more eligible and expansive paths. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.