OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book
An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.
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ployed to tame and discipline his pupils were extremely primitive. He depended chiefly on a ruler, |
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A Salem Reward of Merit. |
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or on what was called " the heavy gad," by which expression, was designated five feet of elastic sapling. These two implements were applied with force and frequency. An appropriate share of the chastisement was visited on the girls, and the older ones were not allowed to escape justice any more than the younger ones; for it was thought that a youth of either sex who was not too old to do wrong was not too old to be punished.
We get a suggestive impression of what the discipline could be from the fact that a Sunderland, Massachusetts, schoolhouse erected in 1793 con- |
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