LYMAN SCHOOL FOR
BOYS
SPORTS
WINTER
FREEDOM is BETTER THAN COMPULSION
No one would suspect that the boys
who are seen about the open hillsides
are held under sentence of the law.
Boys are trusted about the qrounds
on errands and to deliver milk in the
mornings lonq before dawn.
On winter eveninqs groups of boys
qo unattended to and from school
That freedom will be abused is to be
expected, and running away is a
happens, no effort is spared to bring the culprit
frequent occurence. When this
for his breach of discipline.
back and he is
punished
persistent runaway must be put under forcible restraint
In rare cases a
and sometimes when runninq away is coupled with other offences, a boy may be
transferred to the reformatory
at Concord, there to be held under bolts and bars.
But, as a rule, even the most restless settle down after a few breaks; and
taking the school as a whole, and in the lonq
run the policy of freedom
amply justified.
IS
