uickly and
pleasantly open the way; otherwise, respect "the line."
2) In a street-car, boys, you should touch your hat politely and offer
your seat to a woman, a girl, or an elderly man who is standing. Your
courtesy should be accepted with a bow and, "Thank you."
3) Girls, if a seat is offered you, accept it at once with "Thank you."
Don't explain that you don't mind standing.
4) On the street, in street-cars, and in all public places, if your
voice or conduct attracts attention you will be considered "loud,"
"common," vulgar.
5) The chewing of gum in a street-car, in church, or in any other place
outside of your own private room stamps you at once as "common."
CORRIDORS
_Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint._
--Webster.
1) Avoid all running in the corridors; start in time, and walk.
2) Avoid crowding on stairways. Avoid crowding through Assembly Hall
doors. When in a mass of people, move slowly and try to keep breathing
space about yourself.
3) Avoid tossing paper on to the lockers. Avoid dropping it on the
floor; but if paper is there, train yourself to see it and to pick up at
least one piece every time you enter the corridor. This is what Dr.
Crane calls a "civic habit."
4) Boys, hats off on entering the building; don't put them on again
before you are at the outer door ready to leave, even though you should
see grown men violating this rule.
5) Hold a door open for a girl or an older person to precede you in
passing through; then glance over your shoulder to prevent the door from
swinging back into the face of any person who may be following.
6) In order to appear to the best advantage, keep your hands out of your
pockets.
7) Try not to jostle one another. If by chance you do, say, "Pardon
me."
8) Observe, boys, that well-bred men rise when addressed by a woman who
is standing.
9) Avoid whistling in the school building, and even in a private home,
for your whistling may be annoying to some who cannot help hearing it.
10) Never, never, be so disgusting as to spit on the floor, on the
stairs, or into the waste-paper box; use your handkerchief.
11) Care for your finger-nails, your face, your hair, in your room at
home, not before mirrors on your locker doors, or in any other public
place. After making your toilet as well as you can, forget it.
12) Boys, it is not necessary to help the girls mount the stairs in
school unless they are blind or c
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