Excerpt from The Story of the Manchester High School for Girls: 1871 1911 Another phase of this spirit of liberty is the fact that the tyranny of examinations has been minimised by careful selection of those examinations which interfere least with the daily routine of school work, and still more by encouraging girls to limit themselves to one examination taken towards the end of their school career. While one fertile source of over-pressure is thus avoided, another effective step towards improving the health of the girls was taken by the recently established system of medical inspection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.