One would judge from Deborah's continual lectures that the school was made up of a lot of desperately wicked girls sent her to be reformed, instead of a band of demure and saintly little Quaker maidens.

On the 31st Susan writes: Our class has not recited in Philosophy, Chemistry or Physiology, nor have we read, since the 20th of this month, for the reason of there being such a departure among the scholars from the paths of rectitude.
Later she records that a new teacher has arrived "to relieve Deborah of some of her bodily labors," that "he is a stern-looking man," and that she was "somewhat mortified that she could not give him the desired definition of compendiums." The woman who sells molasses candy has been here, but when she leaves she does not carry the confusion with her which she causes....

Deborah requested eight of us larger girls to remain last evening, for the purpose of reproving us.

The cause was the levity and mirthfulness which were displayed on Third day of the week previous.

She compared us to Judas Iscariot, who betrayed his master with a kiss.