The next time I met William, it was during the first session of Leadership Activities the next morning.

Although Bai Xinrui felt that it was extremely stupid for hundreds of students to sit in several circles on the sun-drenched central lawn, when William walked to the center of her circle with Rogers, the vice president of the student council, she couldn't help but let out a silly cheer, like all the girls sitting in the circle.

William greeted every classmate with a calm and noble bearing and an approachable attitude. He was so dazzling, the whole person was simply a walking luminous body, whether it was a boy or a girl, almost no one dared to look at him directly for more than two seconds, but Bai Xinrui's eyes were like the tentacles of an octopus with a sucker, and they couldn't leave him for a moment.

He was tall and well-proportioned, with broad shoulders and long, straight legs, and an ordinary light blue T-shirt and a pair of dark blue trousers that were flattened by him.

His skin was slightly pale, his thick red hair was blown into the shape of a torch protruding forward, shining in the sun, like a small flame, the bridge of his nose was straight and towering, and a pair of golden honey-colored eyes seemed to absorb the sun's rays, full of warmth, and even the small golden hairs on his handsome cheeks shone in the sun.

Bai Xinrui repeatedly prayed in her heart that William could stay in their circle for a longer time, perhaps because of the blessing to his soul, William really stayed.

For their William's handsomeness, and his humorous tone to tell them about the history of the school and the anecdotes of the school, everyone in the circle listened attentively, as if every word that came out of his mouth was a beautiful note that would never be repeated again.

Bai Xinrui learned that more than 200 years ago, a young pastor, Usher· Arnold and his 24-year-old wife and a few protégés traveled thousands of miles from the European continent to this small town in Connecticut, and he vowed to cultivate more upright, kind, responsible, and learned talents for society and the country through soul-touching education. A prominent local lawyer, moved by the spirit of the Reverend Arnold, donated a manor house in the countryside to them to build a school that would provide the most sophisticated and rigorous education for the local aristocratic white boys.

Reverend Arnold experimentally combined religious, academic, and romantic ideals to establish an otherworldly, non-seeking liberal arts education system through a Christian-style home school, which the great pastor gave to the school with the motto "Let us learn on earth, and knowledge will continue in heaven." In addition to religious courses, the school also attaches great importance to the humanities, including Latin, Greek, and philosophy, and at the same time, sports and artistic education are also placed in a very important position, with the aim of training students to become gentlemen with a high degree of inner moral and spiritual qualities.

Pastor Arnold believed that if a person was to remain pure in spirit, he and his disciples worked hard to make the school a sacred home that was in harmony with nature, as it was to grow up closer to the mountains, rivers, earth, trees, and ......flowers, and at the same time to isolate themselves from the hustle and bustle of the world.

This tradition has continued for more than 200 years, and Campus A has expanded from 50 acres to more than 2,000 acres today. During World War II, more than 100 of the white young people of School A fought for world peace, and the school built a cemetery for them in a vacant lot on the back mountain.

In the mid-twenties, schools began to accept people of color, in the seventies they began to admit civilian students, and in the seventies they began to provide financial aid to extremely good poor students, and in the mid-eighties they began to admit their first female students......

Bai Xinrui listened quietly to William's introduction, it turned out that School A had forged countless recalcitrant teenagers into social elites, so that Reverend Arnold's educational philosophy in the United States during the "Gilded Age (the end of the Civil War until the beginning of World War I)" and in the years after that was supported by most of the political elite and business aristocratic families in New England, who sent their young children here to study. Year after year, countless political, business, and cultural elites have gone out of School A.

In order to ensure the highest level of high-quality educational resources, to give the greatest care and cultivation to each student in the school, in the past two hundred years, the school has not expanded its scale, and has always maintained the number of students in grades eight to twelve, about 550 students per year, and it is precisely for this reason that the conditions for school A to recruit students have become extremely harsh, and at the same time, the tuition fee is surprisingly expensive.

Bai Xinrui also learned that the campus is dotted with small cottages of different styles, which are the residences of teachers and staff. Nearly 100 faculty members live at the school throughout the year, and they are truly passionate educators who do their best to serve the only 550 students, even on weekends and breaks, and are willing to spend time with their students for research discussions or individual tutoring, and they often even invite students to their homes for dinner.

Today, the oldest teacher on campus is over 90 years old, and he has been working as a trainee teacher at A since he left Harvard University at the age of 23, where he has spent more than 60 years, and just a few years ago, he was still teaching and researching.

The school crest depicts a pelican pecking a piece of meat from its chest to feed its youngsters, a symbol of the sacrifices teachers are willing to make for their students.

William's speech was undoubtedly infectious, and Bai Xinrui couldn't help but feel a heartfelt love and pride in her school.

Next, the seniors led the new students along the rugged path behind the school to the woods. There was a clearing in the middle of the forest, and in the open space stood four wooden square platforms, about one person tall, and the freshmen were divided into four groups and stood in front of each group of tall wooden platforms.

Bai Xinrui's group, led by a tall black senior named Nicholas, instructed everyone to stand in two columns facing each other under the high platform, and then asked the students to stretch out their arms to the person opposite.

He explained: "Next, I will ask a student to climb onto the wooden platform, cross his hands and fold his arms around his chest, and stand up straight with his back to everyone. The student standing on the wooden platform had to shout 'Ready to trust!' The students in the audience answered him, 'Ready to be trusted!' Once he was fully prepared to fall, he shouted 'Falling!' Answer him, 'Fall on!' Then he can fall straight backwards, and everyone has to catch him with their arms. Do you understand? ”

The students looked at each other, and it was indeed not easy for people who were strangers to each other to trust each other, and no one dared to be the first to try.