Linden Hall School - Leaves Yearbook (Lititz, PA)

Page 19 text:

LINDEN HALL A Successful Living Regime The roomfcompany system enables Linden Hall to keep faith with parents and to fuliil the moral responsibility which the school assumes for its students. The experience of many successive generations of girls at Lin' den Hall has demonstrated this system to be best adapted to promote and maintain correct personal and social habits, and to enable the pupils to derive the largest measure of pleasure and benefit from the time spent at school. To isolate a girl at a formative age is attended by obvious dan' gers. It is far better for her to be thrown into close association with a group of girls, so that she may have the benefit of the social and character training that results from the wider contact, Lmder the wise supervision of an older person. The supervision during the hours of study by trained, judicious teachers, is also of great advantage to the pupil. It promotes life' time habits of punctuality, diligence, and concentration. Wholesomeness of the Routine Inestimable advantages are derived from the regular mode of livingg from the selffcontrol that the life of the school encourages, as it moves on silentlyg from the absence of any distractions from Withoutg from the kindly attention bestowed upon each one per- sonally by the teacherg from the many opportunities for construc' tive amusement and culture of tastes which belong to unspoiled girlhood. Daily Schedule Rising Bell - - 7,00 A, M, Breakfast - - 7.30 A. M. Outdoor Setting-up Exercise - 8.10 to 8.25 A. M. Morning Study hour 8.25 to 8.50 A. M. Chapel Service 8.50 to 9.05 A. M. Recitation Hours 9.05 to 11.55 A. M. Dinner' - 12.00 N. Recgeagwn - Until 1.oo P. M. Recitauon Hours - 1.00 to 5.00 P. M. Gymnasium and Outdoor Recreation 3,00 go 5,00 P.M. Dressing Hour - 5.oo:o 5.50 P. M. SUEPU , - 5.30 P. M. In wr Refrmwn - Until 6.55 P. M. Study Hours, varying according to age 7.00 to 9.00 P. M. Retiring Hour, varying according to age 8,00 go 10,00 P, M, All I-Ishrs Our - 1o.oo P. M. U-'age Elevenj

Page 18 text:

A llneuftb of Good Tbifzgr 111 Read md an Iurifing Plate to Read Them 143-.. ...ll U bc'1'e Perfawmznce ix Ijlllllfflclfj' and an Uflqlmlifed Surfeapr

Page 20 text:

LINDEN HALL Splendid Teacher Influence The most potent influences are not infrequently the indirect ones. The decisive question, therefore, with regard to a school is not merely its curriculum and its appointments, but its spirit and the personality of those who are the chief factors in directing and main' taining that spirit. The utmost care is therefore exercised at Linden Hall in the selection of teachers. Because of the intimate relation with the girls into which the teachers are necessarily brought by our system, their personality and influence is bound to be one of the strong determining factors in the development of the character of the pupils. Force of character, real womanliness, broad culture, a sympa' thetic understanding of young girls and their needs, and the ability to deal wisely with them, are considered of equal importance with scholastic attainments. Vigorous Health Intelligent care is given to the promotion of health. The im' provement in the health and strength of students within a very short time after they come under the wholesome regime of school are, in most cases, so marked as to call for comment. The entire absence of those outside distractions that put a. heavy strain upon a growing school girl's strengthg the regularity of the lifeg early hours for retiring, a full measure of sleep under the favorable conditions described elsewhere, an abundance of whole' some and appetizing foodg the maintenance of the right relation be' tween work and play, daily setfupsg gymnasium drill and swimmingg various outdoor sports under trained supervisiong--all tend strongly to promote good health. As a consequence, serious illness is a mat' ter of exceedingly rare occurrence. In cases of slight indisposition, competent attention is given by a resident nurse. The prompt admission of the indisposed to a suite of attractive rooms, and immediate care by the nurse, not only insure the comfort and the speedy recovery of the individual, but prevent colds, etc., from becoming epidemic. An isolated observation ward is maintained as a further precaution. l:Page Twelvej A