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226 ANTIOCH COLLEGE.
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World Among And The The Many Old Fair No...
service the discours in the e of College that Sunday Ghapel morning throug - on which him t I firs st t attended small
voice uttered its tender persuasions ; and through him the strong" wind and the fire rent the , mountain of sin . He
ins quai tructed nt illustrations whilst he of persuaded truth as sent , and the was ripp no le t ave a rse smile to such over
wi the thering congregation denunc . iations But I of have evil never ; to heard it his from arm any pointed other like such a
prophet ' s rod . day Having I had been a good kindl opportunity y invited of to _observing dine with the personall President t hat
of finding , out what estimate he placed on the results y , the educational experiment over which he had presidedHe was
. head a . tall . , slender The mouth man had , wi a th certain an ex sever tremel e y and intellectual somewhat face restless and
those expression of an , bu infant t the . eye His and brow lexion were was , as fair pure and and rudd calm as
his white silken hair recalled comp to me the line of Orpheus y w , hich clear calls grey and hair earnes " t the and white I blossom felt instinctivel of old age that . " His I could voice , trust was
implicitly whatever ; he should say . In the y course of a long conversation with him and his excellent wife , whose services
gathered to the College tliat their were relation only second to the in in impor stitution tance was to his about own , as I follows : —
come They wes had t to a t t the charge urgen of t en An tr t ioch ty o no f t exac y tl excelle with nt _p jud ersons ices
against the idea of the co-education of , the sexes but with pre many serious apprehensions that the experiment , would rove a
failure . Mr . Mann had been brought up with the most p rigid ideas of female propriety , and an almost Puritan jealousy of all
He oppor was tunit also ies for unsparing evil which , p mi erhap ght s be too given much frail so human , towar nature d the .
gaining students minor vices 1 , a and personal , such he did as acquaintance the not use conceal of tobacco , from or eve them or n wine intimacy that . he He was , began with full the by of
or soug an de xiety r ht to , and make upri mus each htness t keep one prevailed a a co constant -operator in the watch with College him over in There them seeing . is that He no
doubt that much g of the immediate success of the . College was due to the noble relations in which he stood with the students
and to his magnetic influence aver them . I believe that nearly _,, every abandoned youth them who had because been of in his the regard habit of for using MrMann wine or For tobacco the
. . rest moral , this or mental gentleman , in the had students evidently , had watched kept his every eye upon tendency each ,
one unceasingly , and never rested until he was certain that no
226 Antioch College.
226 ANTIOCH COLLEGE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/10/
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