The boys who care to can learn cookery and household buying under her supervision.

All the boys do their own dishwashing, sweeping and bed-making.

Once three boys about fourteen years old went on strike because the proctor asked them to scrub the dining-room floor on their knees.

They thought this work would degrade them, and they started toward the superintendent's office.

On the way they met me and told me their troubles.
"I think it is all right for a young man to scrub a floor on his knees," I said.