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LYMAN SCHOOL FOR
BOYS
JUST BEFORE DINNER.
The PURPOSE of the Lyman School
is to reclaim boys who have been
sentenced to its care by the courts
Only boys under 15 are
eligible
for commitment.
All sentences are for minority, the
practice beinq to retain a
boy
in the
institution for an averaqe term of 19
nd then to release him on
onths
probation.
Not until a bouy attains his
A FAMILY AT DINNER
majority
care of the school.
does he pass out of the
Thus the law recoqnizes that these
un o tenders need, not to be pun-
ished, not even to be educated for a
year or two, but to be
need be restrained during the critical
guided and if
years preceding manhood.
