The Waltham School Committee Report of 1843-44 noted {1} "unusual interruptions" and the failure of classroom management as reasons for the presence of "exceedingly disorderly and insolent" children. It also noted {2} how "frolic and roguery" in the home came to be compounded when "a hundred or more" such children were crowded together in a single room. {3} The characters of some children, who "scour the streets" and "clan together for roguery and mischief," and who "have neither received moral nor religious instruction" was another concern, and more than justified the need for corporal punishment to be meted out as part of daily instruction.{4}