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ANTIOCH COLLEGE./ 219
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World Among And The The Many Old Fair No...
which some general are of the laws first concerning importance - moral and de and stined intellectual to revolu culture tionize
the educational systems of the world , . " ,. u The practical wants" continued the Professor " out of which
, , farmers this College of O hio w , wished were v t heir simp sons le and and obvious daught - These to have plain a
t New good o ob Eng t C olleg land good iate ; the education teach various ers , male wi communities thout and sending female also , them wished for far their to away be public able to
schools without getting them , as they have hitherto' had to do , es wi tablished th much t this rouble College and . expense Th , hoped from th tha e s t the reg admission ion . They of
both sexes would at least turn ey out not objectionablealthough not without some fears that they would have to , alter that
new feature and of uncon the p t lan . Th ted ey advan certainl ta y had would little arise hope from that t ha y t
plan . You wish to know what our g experience is after some of this eriment ?
years " Well : there exp has been a remarkable progress of refinement amonthe irls in this institution which can scarcelbe
attributed g to the mere influences of education . When these y what girls we came _JSTew here Eng , many landers of would them call were Western very rou in gh the , — ir an h d abi all ts
and manners led with . the The wilderness first generation of the great from West the accustomed _j ) i ° _lieers who to
grapp all the hardships and rude customs which had grown , about the hardioneer-lifethey at first shocked and then amused us .
Many y p f us were r , eady to abandon the experiment in despair . But when these irls were brought into the lecture-room with
young men , the boisterous g ways , the loud talking and laughing , and the untidiness of dress swiftlretreated . Wh ? I do
not know that I can tell ; but it was y so . These girls y you saw families to-day would but probabl of y strike them you have as worked from the in most gardens elegant * " and
hayfields ; and many had for their only amusement the boisterous changes kissing-games , could of not app have le-bee been and the app result le-butter of mere festivals intellectual . These
before instruction the g or irl of s had College been disci here pline one ; term for we _, and saw before them manifested they could
Colleg speak e grammaticall and also the y . irl I s believe themselves that every would Professor instantl in the
with me , in attributing g it to the association , with the other y agree sex in their studies .
association " Another of advantage sexes is the which singularl we y rap have id advancement attributed to of both this
in Before knowled I came ge , here and I was the a form teacher ation at R of princi _, in p Massachusetts les and ideas ,
Antioch College./ 219
_ANTIOCH COLLEGE . / 219
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/3/
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