Regulations of the Springfield Female Seminary
Small Broadsides Collection

This sheet of regulations has a handwritten name and date at the top of Maria Stebbins, March 7, 1831. The broadside is pasted to cardboard from a later era.

Note the specificity of the rules and rigidity of the discipline.

For what age group would these rules be appropriate in our culture? Can we assume the students in 1831 would have been this age?

How could we explore if this type of discipline was typical or if there were alternative models of student governance?