"G. Weber's Report for the Boy's Boarding School for the Year 1889"

By the end of the year the numbers in the Boarding part of the school are 18 - and there were 21 day boys. (This is a considerable change from earlier when the numbers of day boys were usually c. 7) Discusses briefly the difficulty they have because they have no special buildings. Also clearly believes in firmness. When the oldest class did not do the written work he set them he set out (after this had happened three times) to punish them (this, though he does not way this clearly was corporal punishment). Two ran away, and one has simply not come back. In another case he refused to pay chop-money for 2 months on the grounds that the pupil was not working hard enough - this particular one also caused him trouble by running off with his clothes to his mother on Saturdays instead of washing them himself.

January 1890

January 1890

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