Naturally I found it difficult to
teach them to sleep between two sheets when we were able to supply but
one. The importance of the use of the night-gown received the same
attention.
For a long time one of the most difficult tasks was to teach the
students that all the buttons were to be kept on their clothes, and
that there must be no torn places or grease-spots. This lesson, I am
pleased to be able to say, has been so thoroughly learned and so
faithfully handed down from year to year by one set of students to
another that often at the present time, when the students march out of
the chapel in the evening and their dress is inspected, as it is every
night, not one button is found to be missing.
CHAPTER XII
RAISING MONEY
WHEN we opened our boarding department, we provided rooms in the attic
of Porter Hall, our first building, for a number of girls. But the
number of students, of both sexes, continued to increase. We could
find rooms outside the school grounds for many of the young men, but
the girls we did not care to expose in this way. Very soon the
problem of providing more rooms for the girls, as well as a larger
boarding department for all the students, grew serious. As a result,
we finally decided to undertake the construction of a still larger
building -- a building that would contain rooms for the girls and
boarding accommodations for all.
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