The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 81
Home Life
Home Life.
The boys and girls live in families of ten or twelve in a cottage. These make up family groups of boys, or girls as the case may be, with a lady or a lady and her husband, as its head. This system of family or home groups has a salutary effect upon the little community, and although not bound by blood relationship, there are ties of friendship stronger than one might page 6 expect. The plan admits of a far more normal training than the old dormitory system. It takes away to a large degree the atmosphere and evils of an institution.