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ANTIOCH COLLEGE. 221
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which he has been sedulously excluded , and as those who have . been rigidly kept all their lives from tasting wine or attending
a theatre , are sure to rush to both so soon as they are at liberty , the separated sexes meet and marry hastily and often
unfortunately . Thus we have the root of disloyalty and unhappiness in domestic life—sex is lashed into an enormously
disproportionate importance , in men and women . We have found that by their meeting each other pleasantly in . parlours and
lecturerooms during the transition from boy-and-girl-hood to manand- woman -hood there is no precocious growth of passionand
no parisite-growth of sentimentality about their minds . , In -the uit of education they see each othernot all the time
as of purs this ' or that sexbut as intelligent human , beings ; and from this grows a mutual , respect . The girl standing' at the
black-board solving her problem is not a plaything any more , but an intellectual being . She is consecrated from day to day
. as a learner and thinker , and conversation with her in the parlour is elevated accordingly . But I am going beyond what
I designed in alluding to the effect of this system on the opposite sex from my own ; during your stay you will have an
opportunity of getting from the male Professors their report as to that side of the question . As we must now repair to our
evening studies I will bid you good day , and invite you to come to the ladies' soireewhich is to take place to-morrow evening
in their drawing-rooms , . " , Whereupon the Professor left me and vanished up the
stairway " Well of the that College is rather , while a I repaired fascinating to my - Professor lodgings : soliloquizing I shouldn " 't
object to , being taught botany by her , nor to the class-mates I should have . Neverthelesswomen are enthusiastic and
pictorial : I shall wish to botanize , a little myself on these human plants of the Antioch Conservatory before I indulge in such
dreams of the educational Beatitudes . These male Professors too—I will make them look me in the eye and tell me the
truth , . " Next morning I received an early call from a Professor to
whom I had brought a letter of introduction . He proposed a walk . As we passed on our way near the College , my attention
was arrested by a young gentleman and lady , going toward the College _, each bearing a book , and arm-in-arm ! The Professor
followed ray eyes and understood their surprise . "Do not be fri onl g y htened married , " he persons said , " we they have are in man our and Colleg wife e . and They are are very the
, industrious students . They keep house too , —there is the 'house in that clump of trees . " " Children ? " " No . They
tiad cluded just that been they married should live when a happ Antioch ier life was together started if : they they k new
Antioch College. 221
ANTIOCH COLLEGE . 221
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/5/
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