Word: rosemarians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toughen them morally as well as mentally and physically, Miss Ruutz-Rees made her girls enact their own rules of conduct, mete out their own punishments. Result is strict discipline. For eating candy (only fruit is allowed between meals), a Rosemarian is kept "on bounds" for two weeks. Some other rules: no chewing gum or cigarets (except for sixth formers), no lipstick or nail polish while in uniform, no reading unpermissioned literature or attending unpermissioned movies...
...supervised by Miss Ruutz-Rees. Most hilarious is the semiannual all-night feast. Rosemary teachers conduct classes and even lunch in academic gowns, address students by last names. Rosemary's chapel is an exquisite early-English-style structure, some of whose stones were lovingly laid in place by Rosemarians themselves. Lighted only by candles, it has engraved in its windows and ceiling the name of every Rosemarian. There Rosemarians each Sunday hear an Episcopal service, there some are married and there they are commemorated in tablets when they...
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