Identifier: reviewofreviewsw05newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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riminating observers of boys, fromJohn Locke to Rudyard Kipling, have descantedon the perils of the ultra sheltered-home system.McDonogh is the antithesis of such a system ; inextreme cases the rigor of self-education is softened,of course, by the deus ex machina intervention ofthe facultj. It would have satisfied the yearningof Pestalozzi and his pupil for passive as againstprescriptive education. The Arnoldian principle oflocal self-government is developed, too, to a re-markably successful degree, the authority andinfluence of the boy-ofiicers commanding the mili-tary battalions being exerted throughout the econ-omy of the school. A DAY AT MDONOGH. Let us follow these youngsters through a schoolday. To make an early start we will find them at5 : 29 A. M. distributed in a seemingly dead conditionthroughout the four large well-ventilated dormi-tories in the handsome building shown by our cut.These dormitories are, however, subdivided intoprivate rooms by partitions which stop three or
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WHERE THE MDONOGH BOYS LIVE. THE MDONOGH FARM SCHOOL 431 foui* feet short of the ceiling, to allow the freetransmission of air. One minute later an alarni-clock brings to sudden life the enterprising youthwho holds, for the year, the wake-up job. Theprocess of resuscitation is a Considerable one, butwhen each of the 109 has formally admitted thathe is awake, his persecutor tinkles a bell, whichmeans that in five minutes everybody must bedressed. Then an officer—always one of the boys—inspectseach occupant of the rooms in his dormitory, andif he has failed to dress himself, the delinquent ispunished by getting., m SIcDonogh parlance, sev-eraldays on the work-list—a curious system ofrewax-ds and punishments which will be explained.Inspection over, each youngster makes up his bedand sweeps and dusts his room, for which operationsten minutes are allotted. Here is another oppor-tunity to get on the work-list, when, later in theday. the matron searches for untidy beds and dustyfloors.

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