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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN. 45
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Turning Some Months All Its' En Ago Erg ...
founda O . Tyler tion , R . esident Minister at Poughkeepsie , at the time of its
" Perhaps an idea of the appearance of the building cannot be better conin veyed imitation than b of y referring which this the structure reader to was any familiar lanned engravin The length g of the of the Tuileries front ,.
wide including and one the hundred wings ; is and five sixty hundred -five feet feet deep p ; the ; the wings . centre are is each one hundred fifty-six feet and , roof will be contained
seventy-one feet deep . Under one a chapel , a library _,, an houses art gallery for four , lecture professors and recitation apartments rooms for , the lad president teachers ' s house matrons , two and double the _^ -
- , y , , one steward of whom ' s famil is y to , and have finall a separate y , accommodations sleeping-room for . three The edifice hundred will ladies be nearl , each y steamlihted with ventilated in the most
perfect fire-proof manner , will , be and heated supplied by throughout , g with an abundance gas , of pure soft water . It stands three hundred feet from the road . The avenue bwhich it is
and approached to wind is throug to be guarded h grounds at the entrance ht to b high y an beauty exquisitel b y- the shaped y landscape lodge ,
which gardener here . A flows littl in e way a strai upon ht the full wroug left current of the and college bartificial runs the y mean Casparkill s has creek been , gy
shaded made to b expand a thick int circlet o a beautiful of chestnut little and lake willow , , surrounded trees . b Here y grassy will banks be erected , and y
. the an appropriate embers of bathing the college -house b ; and skating the lake in the will winter furnish and healthful in the summer exercise for b
m , y , y of rowing the endowment . It may be somewhat added , that exceeding buildings two and hundred grounds thousand will consume dollars a . portion
Vassar It thus for appears the founding , that of more the t College han half will the he funds spent on iven the by mere Mr .
erection ted of that the the building other half and will laying not much t of t more he grounds than suffice , and it for _is
leaving of the expec a endowment library little , t or of no purchase professorshi remainder of for p ps hilosop and the scholarshi enormous hical appara ps current , t t us , forma expenses & c ., t & c .,
for which the will have tion to of be studen at once tsan incurred event which when is the expected College to open tak & e
however place in recep be the iven autum over n of into 1864 , the . hands The finished a bod buil of din Trus g t will ees y
among whom g gentlemen of intelligence and influence , who , will doubtless for launching use every the exertion noble to craft provide and whatever setting i may t fairl y
necessary M afloa uch t on of a cours tide which emus we t depend sincerely hope who will bear is at it the on to helm success but .
, , upon , hap here for choice tunatel has y there been is made every ? reason and tha to t believe the gen tha tleman t a singularl who has y
been PJewett py selected LL . to D . be will the first found President every w of ay the wort College hy to fill , M tha ilo t
honourable . , post . , there Formerly a Professor his reliious at Marietta viewsand College ,
OhioDr . Jewett changed g , conhis nectin , rofessorshi g himself with and the wen Bap t in tist 1838 denomina to Alabama tion , then w resi here gned he
established p the Judson p , Female Institute , which , numberin , g but
American University For Women. 45
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN . 45
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 45, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/45/
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