1853.12

English Cleric Promotes Co-ed Rounders

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	FemalesFemales
Location	EnglandEngland
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Game	RoundersRounders
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Age of Players	Juvenile, UnknownJuvenile, Unknown
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Text	"In school at Westbourne I generally examine boys and girls together, and I find this always produces a greater degree of attention and emulation, each being ashamed to lose credit in the eyes of he other. "In the playground they [boys and girls] have full permission to play together, if they like . . . but they very seldom do play together, because boys' amusements and girls' amusements are of a different character, and if, as happens at rare intervals, I do see a dozen boys and girls going down a slide together in the winter, or engaged in a game of rounders in the summer, I believe both parties are improved by their temporary coalition."
Sources	Rev. Henry Newland, Confirmation and First Communion (Joseph Masters, London, 1853), page 240. Accessed 2/11/10 via Google Books search ("henry newland" mdcccliii).
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Comment	Newland was Vicar of Westbourne, near Bournemouth and about 100 miles SW of London. Edit with form to add a comment
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