By this plan we have the responsibility resting where it ought to rest, and yet the boys are trained to business, and led to take an active interest in the welfare of the school.

Trust is reposed in them, which may be greater or less, as they are able to bear.

All the good effects of reposing trust and confidence, and committing the management of important business to the pupils will be secured, without the dangers which would result from the entire surrender of the management of the institution into their hands.
There have been, in several cases, experiments made with reference to ascertaining how far a government strictly republican would be admissible in a school.

A very fair experiment of this kind was made some years since at the Gardiner Lyceum, in Maine.

At the time of its establishment, nothing was said of the mode of government which it was intended to adopt.