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a recent period. Any student may become a member of either of these Societies by 

 payings a small initiation fee. 



The following is the summary of students in attendance at the school during 1867-8: 



Males. Females. 



In the formal School 440 214 654 



In the Model School 70 46 116 



"Whole number during the year 770 



Number during the Winter Ses.sion 472 



Number during the Summer Session 516 



Total for both Sessions 988 



The government of the School is based upon the principle, "^o I'igJit because it is 

 oHghi.^'' 



Special eftbrts are made to secure obedience to regulations by the cultivation among 

 the pupils of a high sense of honor. 



More reliance is placed in the principle of self-government than in positive rules or in 

 penalties attached to arbitrary restrictions. 



The positive regulations adopted are based upon the following principles: 



1st. No student should be allowed to trespass upon the rights and privileges of 

 another. 



2d. Privileges that all cannot enjoy should be granted to none. It is taken for granted 

 that every student who enters the school is disposed to do right, and to obey the particular 

 regulations of the school, and implicit trust is placed in his sense of honor and pro- 

 priety. 



Parents and guardians are earnestly requested not to send persons who have con- 

 tracted bad habits, as the safety of others will demand their dismission. 



Every care is taken to remove temptation to wrong doing, but upon the discovery 

 that a student cannot be trusted, he will be removed from the school. 



Among the religious privileges of the School are a Sunday School, Bible Classes, 

 Prayer Meetings, and a sennon or religious lecture in the School Chapel every Sunday. 

 Students are required to attend the Sermon or Lecture. Attendance upon other exer- 

 cises is optional. 



Besides the Institutions already named, there are numerous private schools in dif- 

 ferent parts of the County. Among these we name : 



St. James's ScnooL is a graded school, for yovuig ladies, ably conducted by a competent 

 corps of teachers, under the direction of the Rector of St. James's Church. It has all 

 needed appliances for a sound and liberal education. It has six teachers and about 100 

 pui^ils. 



The Rev. Mr. Bruning, a Lutheran minister, also conducts a grls' school, known as 

 the Conestoga Collegiate Institute. Mr. Davis has a mixed school, and the Rev. Mr. 

 Gast, in conjunction with Mr. Gerhard, has charge of the preparatory department of 

 Franklin and Marshall College. 



All these institutions are Day Schools and located at Lancaster. 



The Rev. Mr. Dodge conducts a Young Ladies' Seminary at Mount Joy, and at the 

 same place is also an Academy for Boys; both are Boarding schools. 



Soldiers' Orjjhans are also educated in several jiarts of the County. 



LiBKARiES. — There are three public libraries in Lancaster county — the Mechanics' and 

 the Athenaeum, in Lancaster city, and Shoch's, in Columbia. Tke Mechanics'' Society 

 has 3,500, the Athenaaum Association 3,500, and Shoch's School Library 1,500 volumes. 

 The Mechanics' Society was organized on the 8th of May, 1829. The l:)uilding in South 

 Queen street, at present used by Geo. B. Schaum as a cabinet wareroom, and which 

 was for several years owned and occupied by the 2d Presbyterian Church, was built in 

 1839 by the Mechanics' Society, who owned and occupied it for a number of years, 



