Section 79. STAND UP FOR WHATEVER IS TRUE, MANLY, AND LOVELY. II.
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Every school (S. 5, N. 2), indeed, has its own traditionary standard[1] of right and wrong, which cannot be transgressed with impunity, marking[2] certain things as low[3] and blackguard, and certain others as lawful and right. This standard is ever[4] varying, though it changes only slowly and little by little. It[5] is the leading[6] boys only, who (S. 15, N. 3), subject[7] to such standard, give, for[8] the time being, the tone to[9] all the rest, and[10] make the school either a noble institution for[11] the training of Christian Englishmen, or a place[12] where a young boy will get[13] more evil than if he were turned out[14] to make his[15] own way in London streets.—Thos. Hughes, Tom Brown’s School Days.