From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:

I thought of arithmetic. I know how to add and subtract now, I still don’t know everything about arithmetic. Miss Jackson is a very nice teacher and says that I am not stupid, and she doesn’t scold me when I can’t give the right answers. Next term, I won’t be afraid of Miss Hare when I am at the blackboard and besides it won’t be Miss Hare. Miss Cashen is my new teacher. I found out that Sunday School doesn’t have vacations. Grandfather said that it wasn’t nice of me to want a vacation from Sunday School because I should not want to have a vacation from learning and worshiping God. He said that we must do it every day.