the greater part of their expenses in cash.
Students attending the Day-School are required to work one day in
each week and every other Saturday.
They must also be fourteen years of age, of good physique, and able
to pass the examination for the C Preparatory class, as stated
above.
_The Night-School._--The requirements for entering the Night-School
are the same as for entering the Day-School, with the additional
requisites: Applicants must be fully sixteen years of age instead
of fourteen, and physically able to perform an adult's labor.
Cripples are under no circumstances admitted to this department.
The Night-School is designed for young men and women who earnestly
desire to educate themselves, but who are too poor to pay even the
small charge made in the Day-School. Students will not be admitted
to the Night-School who are known to be able to enter the
Day-School; and when a student has fraudulently gained admission,
upon discovery of the deception, must either enter the Day-School
or leave the institution.
Trades are assigned as nearly as possible in accordance with the
students' desires. In assigning young men and women to a trade,
their mental ability and intelligence to grasp it, and physical
ability to perform the duties required, are all carefully
considered. At the beginning of the school year it often happens
that certain of the industries are quickly filled; and when this
happens, applicants for this particular industry are assigned to
some other division until a vacancy occurs.
The school authorities also sent me a card notifying me as to the
school's requirements in the way of discipline. These seemed to me to be
rather overexacting, but I resolved to try to live up to them if I
should be admitted. Among these were the following:
The rules governing the school are aimed to be those which best
promote the welfare and happiness of all.
Each student is required to have a Bible.
Regular habits of rest and recreation are required.
No student is allowed to leave the grounds without permission.
Male students when permitted to leave the grounds must wear the
regulation cap.
No young woman is permitted to leave the grounds of the institution
unless accompanied by a teacher.
The Institute has adequate facilities for bathing, and all
students a
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