Good Morning List, Most listers know that I have been gathering information for www.ryersonindex.org to index into the Death Index site and from time to time I come across news items that really should be shared and this is one of them. A Letter to the Editor published in they Sydney Morning Herald of 17 March, 1888, says THE WINDSOR SCHOOL OF ARTS. ------------------- TO THE EDITOR OF THE HEARLD. Sir, - As a tribute of the local School of Arts, i feel deeply grieved on learning that the Institution was made an arena for the sxhibition of puglists. Pugilism is certainly not an art contemplated to be cultivated in any Institution supported generally by the people, and subsidised by the Government, more particulary in as institute intended for the intellectural training of our young men. In the pugiliatie exhibitions whihc of late have disgraced the colony we soe the ineveitably result of that intemperate devotion to physical sports which is so characteristic of the day. The brutalisation of human nature is a thing not difficult of acomplishment, and looking at recent occurrences and the examples shown by men who ought to be patterns to society, I fear we are on the broad road to its accomplishment. As a co-trusteee with the Hon W Walker, I codially sympathise with him in the course which he has adopted in connection with the recent outrage. March 16. I am, &c. JOHN TEBBUTT In December 1888 there were Riots at Glebe and Newcastle reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, many months after this letter was published, and I am left to wonder was there unrest for a lengthy period beforehand. Sincerely,Bill E-mail message checked by Internet Security (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.13300 http://www.pctools.com/en/internet-security/