Irreclaimable Savages

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the year 1916, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435064036098&seq=3

Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Cato Sells, October 2, 1916.

“The term ‘tramp student’ has been applied to those students who have formed the habit of transferring from one school to another, not because they required new work which the first school did not give but because of personal caprice or perhaps dissatisfaction with necessary or merited discipline…

…Again, pupils have deserted from one school and have applied later for admission to another school.

Another important factor is that the nomadic student acquires no lasting interest in the institution where he attends school; he is thus robbed of that beautiful relationship which should maintain and ought to engender a life-long pride in the school where he received his education.” (pages 24-25)