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spite of ennui, inclement weather, or fatigue ; that there is no week in the month, or day in the week, or hour in the day. when it is a physical necessity to relieve him from standing or from studying, — from physical effort or mental labor; that the chapel-bell may safely call him to morning prayer from New Year to Christmas, with the assurance, that, if the going does not add to his stock of piety, it will not diminish his stock of health; that he may be sent to the gymnasium and the examination-hall, to the theatres of physical and intellectual display at any time, — in short, that he develops health and strength, blood and nerve, intellect and life, by a regular, uninterrupted, and sustained course of work. And all this is justified both by experience and physiology.
Obedient to the American educational maxim, that boys’ schools and girls’ schools are one, and that the one is the boys’ school, the female schools have copied the methods which have grown out of the requirements of the male organization. Schools for girls have