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What was the nature of your schooling; that is to say, was it by a private school, a public one, a tutor?—in the town where your parents lived, or at a distant boarding-school? A distinctively religious institution, a military institute, or what else? For how long? Did you enjoy it?

When in school-life, did you feel (either with or without your realizing it, or showing it) very enthusiastic, passionate sort of likings and friendships for companions of your own sex? Or great admiration of a sentimental kind for some older person of same sex?

Were there any physical signs of how such a sentiment operated on you?

Would you say that that sort of admiration was distinctly aroused by the physical beauty of the object? If so, how strongly? What physical traits pleased your fancy? What psychic traits?

In school-life were you more successful in 'abstract' branches, or in more æsthetic studies? For example, were you a better scholar, by natural tendency, in mathematics or languages; in grammar or history; in geography or spelling f Especially what sort of a mathematical student?

In early life at school, etc., had you taste for music, drawing, and other arts?

Was your memory, as a young student, a good one? Did you easily apply it?

In this early period did you feel, so far as you can remember, any "perverse" moral impulses of a sort that seem to refer to any of your ancestral lines?

Were you truthful, industrious, strictly honest in actions, and so forth?

Did you suffer from nervousness, including some minor signs of it, such as nail-biting, movements of the eyes, and involuntary gestures and muscular movements? If so, have they passed away now?

As a child did you dream much in sleep? Were your dreams sentimental, pleasant, alarming to you, or what sort? How is this detail now?

As a lad, especially at school, were you aware of youthful sexual practices among your companions or others, such as onanism,

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