CHAPTER IV.
MORAL DISCIPLINE.
First impressions .-- Story .-- Danger of devoting too much attention to individual instances .-- The profane boy .-- Case described .-- Confession of the boys .-- Success .-- The untidy desk .-- Measures in consequence.
-- Interesting the scholars in the good order of the school .-- Securing a majority .-- Example .-- Reports about the desks .-- The new College building .-- Modes of interesting the boys .-- The irregular class .-- Two ways of remedying the evil .-- Boys' love of system and regularity.
-- Object of securing a majority, and particular means of doing it .-- Making school pleasant .-- Discipline should generally be private .-- In all cases that are brought before the school, public opinion in the teacher's favor should be secured .-- Story of the rescue .-- Feelings of displeasure against what is wrong .-- The teacher under moral obligation, and governed, himself, by law .-- Description of the _Moral Exercise_ .-- Prejudice .-- The scholars' written remarks, and the teacher's comments .-- The spider .-- List of subjects .-- Anonymous writing .-- Specimens .-- Marks of a bad scholar .-- Consequences of being behindhand .-- New scholars .-- A satirical spirit .-- Variety.
Treatment of individual offenders .-- Ascertaining who they are .-- Studying their characters .-- Securing their personal attachment .-- Asking assistance .-- The whistle .-- Open, frank dealing .-- Example .-- Dialogue with James .-- Communications in writing..