I have adverted already to the system of fagging at our public schools.
I am Boy in the House on the extra whole holiday, and shall have cricket-fagging in the evening at the end of a hard day's other fagging.
Indeed, what with fagging and bullying, servility was as much inculcated at Harrow in those days as if it was likely to be a desirable acquirement in after life.
The cricket-fagging, the dreadful, horrible cricket-fagging comes upon me to-day.
When I returned for the holidays to the paternal roof, it was only to be fagged by my elder brethren; for here the fagging system, I regret to say, was not only tolerated, but carried out to its most deplorable extreme.
I had been fagging all the morning, Miss Curzon; and having no time for breakfast, I went into church with my rolls in my pocket, and one of the masters saw me eating them.
During the ten years preceding his mission to Spain, Irving kept fagging away at the pen, doing a good deal of miscellaneous and ephemeral work.
He could not fail to acknowledge that fagging was a very good thing; but then his school was not a public school, however first-rate it might be as a private establishment; and he might not wish to make it like a public school.
They talked very big about the matter; they thought it would be a very fine thing: their school was first-rate as it was, and if fagging were introduced it would be fully equal to any public school.
Naturally, the late attempt to introduce fagging was discussed, and the part Bracebridge had taken in suppressing it was openly spoken of.
Fagging is not in vogue, so I'll give that up for the present, but I don't know what other big fellows will do.
He might be wrong, of course; but suppose he was right-- The result of all these inward musings was that I offered Trimble to do Tempest's fagging in his place next morning.
A short conversation I overheard as I was fagging in his study that morning, however, was not encouraging.
It is even averred that to put down fagging he organized a conspiracy of the junior Etonians against the barbarous practice.
Gabriel merely asked, when the other stopped, "What good does the fagging do the fellow that flings the boots and bullies the little one?
But the common law of fagging at Harrow holds that any lower boy is bound to obey the Monitors, provided such obedience is not contrary to the rules of the school.
Fagging at Harrow--which varies slightly in different houses--is hard or easy according to the taste and fancy of the fag's master.
The privilege of fagging is not, however, unadulterated bliss.
In practice, however, no boy is fagged outside his own house, except for cricket-fagging in the summer term.
She won't let girls make themselves idiots over her--she squashes them horribly if they overdo the flowers and sweets and fagging business.
But it was carrying the fagging system to far too great an extent, and the practice is now greatly modified.
The excitement was almost too much for Louis, tried as he had been lately by unusual fagging and early rising.
Among some feathered folk, however, fagging flourishes in full vigour; and so long as there are cuckoos so long will there be fags.
Tom Brown, as readers will remember, was in deep trouble at Rugby about the fagging system in vogue during his "school-days.
The fagging of the schools is repeated in the social classes.
This is part of the fearful fagging system, of which so many complaints are made.
All good men at length fly with horror from such a service.
Such are the consequences of the division of Court from the Administration; and of the division of public men among themselves.
There's no fagging over the Upper Fourth, let me tell you, even for us.
Thither his new form accordingly repaired, and on the good ten minutes' walk Carpenter and Rutter had their heads violently knocked together by Shockley, for having the cheek to get so high and to escape fagging their first term.
It would be a desperate remedy, Rutter; it would mean your being a fag, after first escaping fagging altogether; in fact, it would be starting all over again.
And then came breakfast, and a saunter about the close and town with East, whose lameness only became severe when any fagging had to be done.
So they only slurred through their fagging just well enough to escape a licking, and not always that, and got the character of sulky, unwilling fags.
A great deal, I think," said the master; "what brought island fagging to an end?
You retort perhaps that fagging is unknown in America, and that high-spirited youth would not tolerate it.
It is a disgrace to the American name, and when you stop in the wretched business to sneer at English fagging you merely advertise the beam in your own eyes.
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