Scally The Story Of A Perfect Gentleman Classic Reprint

Author : Ian Hay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331521419
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Lighter Side of School Life written by Ian Hay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lighter Side of School Life: Scally the Story of a Perfect Gentleman A Headmaster is too busy a personage to keep his own scholarship tuned up to concert pitch; and if he devotes adequate time to this object and a scholar must practise almost as diligently as a pianist or an acrobat if he is to remain in the first flight he will have little leisure left for less intellectual but equally vital duties. N ow adays in great public schools the Head, although he probably takes the Sixth for an hour or two a day, delegates most of his work in this direction to a capable and up-to-date young man fresh from the University, and devotes his energies to such trifling details as the organisation of school routine, the supervision of the cook, the admin istration of justice, the diplomatic handling ofthe Governing Body, and the suppression of parents. So far then we are agreed - the great advan tage of dogmatising in print is that one can take the agreement of the reader for granted that a Headmaster must be a gentleman, but not necessarily a scholar in the very highest sense of the word. What other virtues must he possess? Well, he must be a majestic figurehead. This is not so difficult as it sounds. The dignity which doth hedge a Headmaster is so tremendous that the dullest and fussiest of the race can hardly fail to be impressive and awe-inspiring to the plastic mind of youth. More than one King Log has left a name behind him, through standing still in the limelight and keeping his mouth shut. 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.