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The danger is that the rising generation will refuse to accept this method, and that it will lead to deep and irretrievable intellectual confusion. This is what Father Knox clearly saw to be the intellectual sin of the "Foundationers." Nevertheless, when all is said it is easy to criticize but difficult to advise.
The unanimity and harmony of this entire large place is in danger, and the foundationers are in extreme peril. You perhaps know to what I allude." "I could not be in the school without having heard rumors of a sort of insurrection which seems to be spreading a good deal," said Cassandra. "Of course," said Miss Ravenscroft.
You are talking pure nonsense, Susan Hopkins, and I'll break my word if that's all you have to tell." "It's true enough. Have you never heard of our society? Well, of course not, so I will tell you. It is this way, Aunt Church: When Miss Kathleen came to the school she took pity on us foundationers.
Children like the foundationers, who are received at the school without being expected to pay anything, who get the most admirable education free of all cost, daring to set up their opinion against girls who, without being in any sense their superiors one doesn't want to imply that for an instant are yet vastly superior in numbers.
When they were all seated round the table Miss Mackenzie, who was chairwoman, took out the agenda and read its contents aloud. These were brief enough: "To inquire into the insurrection amongst the foundationers, and in particular to cause full investigation to be made with regard to the Irish girl, Kathleen O'Hara."
That as far as possible we hold ourselves aloof from the paying members of the Great Shirley School." This rule was not quite as enthusiastically received. The foundationers were not altogether without friends amongst the other girls of the school. Ruth Craven in particular had several. "I don't think that is a very fair rule," she said.
They have never been accustomed to self-restraint; they have not been guided to control themselves. Of all the girls in the school whom you, Miss O'Hara, have tried to injure, you have selected the foundationers, who have only been to Board schools before they came here. They look up to you as above them by birth; your very way, your words, can influence them.
Perhaps she will do something to raise herself into our set; but as it is, she must go with Kate Rourke and Hannah Johnson and Clara Sawyer, and all the rest of the foundationers." "Well, we have seen her now," said Mary, "so I suppose we needn't stand talking about her any longer. Will you come home and have tea with me, Alice? Mother said I might ask you."
She joined it for a bit, and she liked it that is, on the whole but afterwards a girl who had not joined the society and did not belong to the foundationers, one whom I am sorry to say the foundationers did not care for at all, offered a great kindness to this girl a very special and tremendous kindness and the girl in her own mind decided that she would be doing wrong not to accept it.
We draw the line variously, but every one draws it somewhere. . . . Magdalen, hey? If I mistake not, the foundationers of Magdalen including, perhaps, some who were undergraduates with you are assembled in the college hall at this moment to celebrate Christmas, and hear the choir sing Pergolese's "Gloria." 'The reminder hurts me, said I 'if that be any gratification to you.
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