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AMERICAN UNIVEKSITY FOR WOMEN. 45
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VIL—AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN.
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turning Some months all its' en ago erg ...
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American Univeksity For Women. 45
AMERICAN UNIVEKSITY FOR WOMEN . 45
Vil—American University For Women.
VIL—AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN .
Turning Some Months All Its' En Ago Erg ...
turning Some months all its' en ago erg , ies when against the its sad elf spectacle , and exhausting of a great - itself nation in a checked wonted
flow blood of y and kindl obstinate y sympath in y ternal with strife our , " had Brother Jonathan our of America , " and ,
time excep and all t one from things individual a very American small had minority were power poured sing , sweep ly forth to ing stem on censures all the sides tide ; at at least this
for a , timeand force the most censorious for very shame to hold their comprehensive hilanthrop peace , ist ' awhile _^ Mr for , this Peabod and was blush the to that tim lay e their at chosen the abuse feet by the of had Eng American been land so ' s
Peabody poor is p less , the widel does more y , not known than . stand princel in Eng alone y y , g land ift a s of olitary than £ 100 it examp , 000 should . le At of be , present American that Mr it .
munificenceand that another name may be added to his , as no less worthy , to be the pride of a nation , her and luxuriant her glorious soilit proof
l also that nurture whatever -hearted true and ill weeds and noble - may handed men flourish to , energetic spend on . This to earn nam , but e is not that , less can of
Matthew arge Vassarthe open founder of the Vassar Female College , an institution not to , be classed with those mere better-class schools but real
_University which in Eng for lan Women d take , the intended name of to Ladies afford ' to Colleges girls just , such a a and
thorough and complete education as our own Oxford Cam-Vassar bridge offer has devoted to youth to of this the other sex is . no The less amount a sum which than four Mr . purpose
which hundred has and not been eight gained thousand as an doll easy ars inheritance ! ( £ 85 , 000 , ) nor money as a , mere too , windfall of good fortunebut which is the fruit of his own
honest boy of fourteen toil and , well went -directed forth , , like energy the ; h for eroes when of its fairy own six tales er , as , to a
u seek his fortune , " his whole capital consisted of but . poor shillings Joh Born n Guy in . , Eng the lan founder d , in 1792 of , Guy of ' a s famil Hosp old y ital nearl with , London y his related , young to Sir to
Matthew Americawhere went , they when settled but four on a years farm about , three miles parents from hkeepsie , Finding hops growing wild abundantly in the
Poug been neighbourhood sown before . , the and elder then Vassar blended sowed the barley two where products it had into never the
Jelicious _Deverage , harmony thus transp , of " lanted Home , - soon Brewed and becam . " Old e popular its Eng introducers land among ' s famous built the
Dutch i Brewery settlers , in which in the Matthew vicinity , began ere activ long e , life as a " lad , " till , .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/43/
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