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THROUGH the laxity of their parents in nutritional matters, nearly all children go to boarding schools as ‘damaged goods'. This accusation, which is broadly true, is made by Prof. H. E. Armstrong in No. 7 of the gastronomical quarterly Wine and Food, in which he reviews Dr. Friend's book ” The Schoolboy. A Study of his Nutrition, Physical Development and Health”. Schools may not be able to repair the injury inflicted by parental carelessness, but at least they should not add to it, as they commonly do, by providing ill-planned dietaries during the crucial period of adolescence. For more than twenty years resident medical officer at Christ's Hospital, Dr. Friend has striven to better the physical condition of the boys passing under his care by improving the biological quality of the school diet. These experiments have been watched and encouraged by Prof. Armstrong in his capacity as a governor of the school. Prof. Armstrong is constantly directing his stinging wit and pungent criticisms at first one and then another public nuisance. The problem with which he is exercised at the moment is:
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School Dietaries. Nature 136, 749 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136749a0
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