[78]. Ibid., p. xii. Minutes of the London School Board, November 30, 1899, Vol. 51, pp. 1868-72. The Majority Report was rejected by 27 votes to 12.
[79]. The Times, December 1, 1899.
[80]. Justice, March 29, September 13 and 27, December 6, 1884.
[81]. See, for instance, the memorials presented in 1892, 1896, and 1899. (Minutes of the London School Board, November 17, 1892; February 20, 1896; December 7, 1899.)
[82]. Similar committees had been in existence in several schools for some years.
[83]. Minutes of the London School Board, March 1, 1900, Vol. 52, pp. 854-5, 905.
[85]. Report of Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland), 1903. Vol. I., p. 30, par. 162. "If we are going to develop the physical training of children we must be on our guard against overworking them," said one witness, "and, of course, underfed children would be positively injured by even light exercises." (Ibid., Vol. II., Q. 760, evidence of Mr. J. E. Legge, Inspector of Reformatory and Industrial Schools.) "Children can exist, when doing no mental or physical work, on a bare subsistence diet," said Dr. Clement Dukes, "but ... a bare subsistence diet becomes a starvation diet when mental or bodily work is added." (Ibid., Q. 8140.)
[86]. Ibid., Vol. I., p. 30, par. 165.
[87]. Ibid., p. 30, par. 167.