ABSTRACT
Effect of Solomon’s adage—Whipping in Ancient Greece—Widespread practice at one time of birching boys in school—Frederick the Great and the whip—Dr. Johnson’s floggings—Whipping in English public schools—Practice of whipping girls in English seminaries — Quintilian’s denunciation of whipping — Causes of decline in whipping as a school punishment—Corporal punishment in schools comparatively rare to-day.
