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112 HAlLEYBURY [CJUP. XI
tites. In 1800 and subsequently the profita from the sale
of SUJtllementary nourishment, though the feeding in
Hall was ample-considerably more than we got at Eton
fifty years ago-was no Jess than £250 per annum.
On this thorny subjeet much might be said. Here I
will only utter a caution to all whom it may concern. Of
all random words that have ever been printed on any
educational question-and think what that means !nothing
has ever come up to a batch of letters to Tke
Times a year or two ago on " Underfeeding in Schools."
Nearly every letter showed ignorance of facts ; but that
matters little in comparison wit! ibe assumption made
by the large majority of the writers-mainly mothers, I
fear-viz. that boys do not need to be taught self-control
in the matter of food. This doctrine prevails in thousands
of homes and is plainly and undeniably the source of one
of the gravest evils of our social life. A century ago oilr
boys were sent to sebools in all of which they were neglected
and underfed. Their bodies were damaged, though
far less than is commonly supposed ; but nowadays many
people have forgotten that their sons have souls.
The first 1\laster of Haileybury was Arthur Butler,
brother of the better-known Montagu, the future Master
of Trinity, Cambridge. The memory of Arthur survived
to 1890, though be only held the office for six years, owing
to ill-health. He was greatly beloved, and no more attractively
eager personality could be found among the H.M.s
of the century. The traditions of the place lost in richness
and glow by his retirement. A venerable Rugbeian
who remembers him as a very young master speaks with
bated breath of his superb football. But his inftuence
was due to his lovable personality, self-forgetfulness, and
moral fervour.
Of the masters appointed by Butler, one has lately died,
the venerable and greatly esteemed Hensley, whom I found
aa . .tbe senior assistant in 1890. Bradby was a very differenf'man;
as a distinguished pupil of his once remarked,
there DIUSt have been greatness in him to out-balance his