The Life of Froude
The Life of Froude
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, persuaded themselves that boys were all
the better for roughing it as a preparation for the discipline of
the world. The case of Froude, however, was a peculiarly bad one. He
was suffering from hernia, and the treatment might well have killed
him. Although his lagging only lasted for a year, he was
persistently bullied and tormented, until he forgot what he had
learned, instead of adding to it. When the body is starved and ill-
treated, the mind will not work. The head master, Dr. Williamson,
was disappointed in a boy of whom he had expected so much, and wrote
unfavourable reports. After enduring undeserved and disabling
hardships for three years and a half, Froude was taken away from
Westminster at the age of fifteen.
To escape from such a den of horrors was at first a relief. But he soon found that his miseries were not over. He came home in disgrace. His misfortunes were regarded as his faults, and the worst construction was put upon everything he said or did. His clothes and books had been freely sto
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