Note 968 — Chapter XVII · The Moral Scope.

On this keenly discussed question see: Findlay, Arnold of Rugby, with an Introduction by the Right Reverend Lord Bishop of Hereford. (1897), pp. 23 and 24.—Fitch, Thomas and Matthew Arnold, pp. 103–108. There it is stated that exaltation of physical powers to the same level as intellectual distinction has in late years seriously debased the ideal and hindered the usefulness of the great public schools in England. “For the moment the type of school-boy and of manhood most in favor with the British public is Spartan rather than Athenian.” Mr. Fitch states also that the famous romance of Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s School-days, gives only one side and that not the best side of Rugby school life.—Some excellent remarks on athletics in college are made by Mr. Canfield in his book The College Student and his Problems, pp. 103–105. A very severe criticism of the excessive admiration of sport among the English public is contained in the Contemporary Review, Jan. 1902.—See also Nineteenth Century, Jan. 1903, p. 46.