* * * * With the retirement of Mr. J.
H. Badley from the headmastership of Bedales the principle of co-ethication in this country will be put to a new test. For Mr. Badley founded Bedales and moulded it. How much of its success—for it is by common consent the most notable of the few co-educational boarding schools in this country —is bound up with his personality and dependent on it will only be discovered when the control passes into other hands. Within its limits Bedales has been a distinct success. It has for forty years shown that a co-educa- tional school can achieve its aim in Great Britain. It has produced both scholarship-winners and rowing-blues. But it has not produced a crop of co-educational schools. And it has not, I fancy, convinced a majority, though it certainly has a minority, of its old boys and girls that co-education is a good thing for their children. Bedales under Mr. Badley's successor will be worth watching. * * * *
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