Robert Baden-Powell

“ Apart from such attitude being fairer to the performers, it is the best possible lesson in selfrestraint for the lads to repress their personal feelings under a sense of discipline: it teaches them the elements of fair play, in giving neither combatant encouragement or depression, and it is an antidote to that which I look upon as one of the worst features of a crowd looking on at football, viz., the surrendering of one's own individual judgment to be swayed by the mass around one. ”

“ Who won First Prize for Piping
appeals to a very large number of boys, and is a valuable medium of education, since it develops study of natural science, particular neat-handedness, patient application, and a knowledge which is bound to be of service to the lad in later life. The acting, chorus-singing, and dancing, of which so many performances were to be seen in the theatre, were all of educational value in their way, such as in the discipline of rehearsal, in the learning of parts, in the repression of self-consciousness and awkwardness, and the development of self-expression, and so on. ”

“ It needs no great stretch of imagination to see in this the promise of a closer bond between the future of our Empire across the Seas, and a stronger guarantee of future peace between the nations when their men begin to look upon each-other as members of one brotherhood instead of as hereditary enemies. ”