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that a willingness to accept such half-boarders and home-boarders has been put forward as a prominent feature of the School. No doubt with this increase in the numbers of the School, fresh accommodation will be required, and it is hoped that the Dean and Chapter, who in recent years have shown so much kindness towards it, will not be wanting in readiness to grant space for its expansion.
Nothing has been said about changes in the educational system itself, though this is a question of paramount importance; because full confidence is felt that the present Head Master is quite alive to the important changes which the progress of opinion is enforcing on the Universities and which will necessitate, if they do not even presuppose, corresponding changes in the Public Schools.
Nor, again, has it been thought pertinent to the present remarks to discuss the question of the comparative morality of schools in London or in the country. It would be too much to hope for, even if it were desirable, that schools should cease to exist in London and other large towns; but the present writer, without entering into details, can honestly assert that Westminster boys as known by him may be very favourably compared in this respect with those of schools situated in the country.
