Prohibitions

Boys are forbidden:

To buy or sell, borrow or lend, give, take, or exchange anything except fruit or other eatables, without the teacher’s permission.
To read any book in school except such as contain the reading lesson of his class.
To have in his possession at school any book without the teacher’s knowledge.
To throw pens, paper, or anything whatever, on the floor or out a window or door.
To go out to play with his class when he has a deviation.
To spit on the floor.
To climb on any fence, railing, ladder, etc., about the school-house.
To scrawl on, blot, or mark slips.
To mark, cut, scratch, chalk, or otherwise disfigure, injure, or defile any portion of the building or anything connected with it.
To take out an inkstand, meddle with the contents of another’s desk, or necessarily open or shut his own.
To write without using a card and wiper.
To quit school without having finished his copy.
To use a knife, except on the conditions prescribed.
To remove class lists from their depositories.
To meddle with ink unnecessarily.
To study home lessons in school hours.
To leave the hall at any time without leave.
To pass noisily, or upon the run, from one room to another, or through the entries.
To visit the office, furnace-room, or any closet or teacher’s room, except in pass, without a written permit.
Too play at paw paw anywhere, or any game within the building.
To play in the play-ground before school.
To leave whitlings or other rubbish in the play-ground, on the side walk, around the building.
To go out of the play-ground in school hours.

Compliments of the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine

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