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46 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN.
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the South seven largest scholars After and at fourteen best its seminary commencement years of for hi young g , hl becam y successful ladies e , under in the his exertion whole care ,
. , Professor Abolition to the excitement Jewett and returned resi of gned feelin to g his his which position free was native arising in this North Ins on where the titute subject , for owing five ' of
conception powers for years more he to than , was m for aturing two at it the was year the head he s grand past who of has firs p a lan seminary been t suggested which devotin in owed Poug g to all its , Mr hkeepsie his ori . Vassar g tim in to e , and but the his _^
idea personall of founding y , acquainted a College with him for , Women undertaken speaks . thus Mr . hi D g yer hly , who of his is
qualifications for the work he has : — " If a steady , affectionate of actual , and enthusiastic consecration educator to of the great
undertaking b if y a a fine singular , if literary twenty tact and , years suavity scientific , and culture and knowled experience , if ge great of minded human as executive an nature power , if a young to , long accompanied suggestion -breathed women ,
the from industry grandeur every and worth and tenacity y beneficence source of will , if a , of solemn the a work large appreciation - to which of hosp he his has itality own been position summoned and of s
man and finall or man y , if ' s a books _devciit , can and _qualif constant y the first looking president to a source of Vassar of hel Female p higher College than ,
for his , difficult task , then , in our judgment , have the trustees made an eminently judicious choice .
As regards the exact nature of the studies to be followed , the but of tim the e one they scheme gr shall and are point occupy , in , many that , the particul the terms students , ar & s c , , scarcel & shall wisdom c , the y be yet precise of resident determined decision detail , has s ,
been which full seemed y decided so . undeniabl Strange to called say , for the when it is considered a that ils will of course be y sent to the , College from all parts
ridicule of the pup country has been , has liberall been greatl showered y questioned on what in has some been quarters termed ; y
others bring " a protestant ing have young broug nunnery ladies ht forward u , together " or " s an erious in anabaptistical herds arguments , " and convent caravanseries on the ; s " ubject while , "
one terms American the superior professor advantages in particular of leaving urging both in teach very ers strong and , wherever miht
students to seek their board and lodging they g choose atlantic . cities However we should boarding hardl -house y have life thoug may ht prevail that the in idea Trans of
twenty three hundred -two , being , , young and left ladies lod to domicile , of houses ages themselves rang scattered ing from , as sixteen best l they to
city coul , d would , in boarding not have been felt ging at - once to , be out of the over question a arge . should The controversy be consulted only shows in the how determination desirable it of is that matters both sexes in any
which they have at least an equal interest ; for what mother
46 American University For Women.
46 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 46, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/46/
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