Introduction

  Dorm Life

  Rules To
       Live By

  Honor Code

  A Sound
          Body

Just as students needed to be in good physical health to enter school, they also needed to stay in good health. Each student's health record was kept in her file and regularly updated, usually by the house mother, who saw the girls every day.

The School was remarkably forward-thinking in its ideas about healthy living, even in the early part of the century. This report from 1930 not only checks for eight hours of sleep, but also six glasses of water, one-half hour of exercise daily, and the consumption of fresh fruit.

To read the health report, click on the image above.