...re; and thanks to an elder brother, the strongest boy in the school, I went free of the frequent pommeling visited by the larger boys on the smaller. I will not go so far as my schoolmate, the late Charles C. Perkins , who used simply to say of it, when questioned by his young sons, My dears, it was hell; but even as a day-scholar I recall some aspects of it with hearty dislike, and am glad that it was my happy l...