e for the recess is a quarter of an hour, and as you will see, it
is marked R. on the schedule. We have various modes of amusing ourselves
and finding exercise and recreation in recesses. Sometimes the girls
bring their battledoors to school. Sometimes they have a large number of
soft balls, with which they amuse themselves. A more common amusement is
marching to the music of the piano. For this purpose, a set of signals
by the whistle has been devised, by which commands are communicated to
the school.

In these and similar amusements the recess passes away, and one minute
before it expires the bell is rung, to give notice of the approach of
study hours.

At this signal the scholars begin to prepare for a return to the
ordinary duties of school, and when at the full expiration of the
recess, the Study Card again goes up, silence, and attention, and order
is immediately restored.

_Third Hour--Mathematics._

(See plan.)

There follows next, as you will see by reference to the schedule, an
hour marked Mathematics. It is time for studying and reciting
Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry and similar studies. It is divided as the
previous hours were, into two equal parts, and the bell is rung as has
been described, five minutes before the close, and precisely at the
close of each half hour.

_Second General Exercise.--Business._

(See plan.)

Then follows two quarter hours, appropriated like those heretofore
described, the first to a General Exercise, the second to a Recess. At
the first of these, the general business of the school is transacted. As
this business will probably appear new to you, and will attract your
attention, I will describe its nature and design.

At first you will observe a young lady rise at the secretary's desk, to
read a journal of what was done the day before. The notices which I
gave, the arrangements I made,--the subjects discussed and decided,--and
in fact every thing important and interesting in the business or
occurrences of the preceding day--is recorded by the secretary of the
school, and read at this time. This journal ought not to be a mere dry
record of votes and business, but as far as possible, an interesting
description in a narrative style, of the occurrences of the day. The
Secretary must keep a memorandum, and ascertain that every thing
important really finds a place in the record, but she may employ any
good writer in school to prepare, from her minutes, the full account.