[...] with her without permission from their Tutoresses after comeing from breakfast, every one goes to make their own bed, but never be in to great a [7] hurry & give your Tutoresses time to go with you, without you are in company with them, the noise is generally too great, when the bell rings at 8 o clock the scholars must all be prepar’d to go to their different schools in silence & with propriety without disputing places with one another, you would by such behaviours compell your Tutoresses to give you certain places & that would show a great weakness in you & want of good manners, the best method is, when you go into your schools, to sit down in silence, & implore a blessing from our Saviour & Grace to go thro your Studies with pleasure & perseverance, I hope it is needless to recomend to you all to sit strait in school & not to speak, without you are call’d upon when the bell rings for the children meeting, it would be highly improper if the Children were to hurry in the Hall, & to be chuseing Places. In future, you are all to go in the following Order, on the first bench the Children living with that live in the Town with their Parents [...]
7. “a” is added above, between “great” and “hurry”
Joahann Andreas Hübner’s
rules for conduct at the 1789
Bethlehem Boarding School
for Girls
Hübner transcription is presented as
written, with underlined/crossed out text,
original spelling and capitalization.