[...] is some amongst you, that even will not stop to look if there Tutoress is comeing after them or not, dear Children I would wish & hope hereafter not to see you go out a walking in such a maner never run, nor talk so loud, till you get out of sight of the houses, it has a disrespectful appea-rance to any person, that looks after you. at Supper the same rules are to be observ’d as at all the other meals, I hope all [13] our Children all punctually attend their evening Prayers, & when they go to bed, never allow themselves to talk nor be loud.

Behaviour to their Tutoresses
to their equals
to such as enter school
not immitate bad things they have seen or
heard at home

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13. “all” is written above “hope” and “our”

Transcription by Barbara Ballard
with annotations by James Talarico

Joahann Andreas Hübner’s
rules for conduct at the 1789
Bethlehem Boarding School
for Girls

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