IS WILLOUGHBY MAD?
Things did not mend all at once at Willoughby.

No one expected they would.

And within a few days after the "debate in Parliament" it seemed as if the school had finally abandoned all ideas of order and discipline.
The reader will remember that more than once mention had been made of an approaching election for the free and enlightened borough of Shellport, which was occupying the attention not only of the town, and of the doctor and his ladies, but also of the boys themselves.

And the cheers with which Morrison's notice of motion, mentioned in the last chapter, was received, showed plainly enough how things were going.
By long tradition Willoughby had been a Whig school.

Fellows did not exactly know what Whig meant, but they knew it was the opposite of Tory on one side and Radical on the other, and they went accordingly.