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with All grumbling is discountenanced during the week, and the grumbler is told to bring bis complaint to Assembly on Saturday morning. Next, volunteers are called for to do Saturday morning jobs. The farmyard has an extra clean, the hair brushes have to be washed, the spoons and forks have to be polished. Someone is needed to scavenge the lawns and remove the odd bits of paper and rubbish that have accumulated there during the week. The wardens clean the chapel ready for Sund ay, while another child gathers and helps to arrange the flowers. Some children offer willingly for every job as it is announced ; some keep their hands discreetly by their sides until some special duty takes their fancy; others prefer to wait until a 30b is allotted to them. Then till dinner time the Community presents a scene of great activity. At every corner children are busy, and grown-ups busier still, helping first one group and then another; pausing to admire the progress made by a small child, or to admonish a slothful one. After dinner pennies are given out from the school hank, and an expedition is made into the neighbouring village to buy sweets, and execute commissions for the people who are left behind. The intellectual needs of the children are not sacrificed to an artificial esprit de corps. A certain amount of individualism is fostered during school hours; there is no form loyalty, no class feeling, to he considered. Whether from this reason or for some other more deeply- rooted cause, it has been found difficult to obtain anything like cooperation or public opinion in playtime. For a long time games have, in fact, presented one of the most difficult problems of the children’s education. As a rule, they study with interest, use their hands with zeal, and help the staff in their work with a businesslike thoroughness, hut the importance of games is incomprehensible to them at first. Joe is howled out at cricket; he pulls up the stumps, and retires indoors sulking. The grown-up person remonstrates. “ But they are his own stumps,” the children cry in chorus. To he “sporting,” which is really only another name for chivalrous, to give your opponent the benefit of the doubt, and to play a losing game well, are lessons just as real and just as difficult as the Latin and mathematics taught indoors, and they are being learnt gradually; every term shows a difference in the spirit of the game.