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ANTIOCH COLLEGE. 225
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man but y still years more faithf in ull bring y in ing the her Congress public of school the - United system States to its , he known
when p resen a cons S t lavery unrivalled tant and ttered comp eloquen the leteness t t Cham . p In of ion nearl Congress of Freedom o was ther at a repre time
sentativeWebster and Everett ongues among others y every . When he was himsel appoin f ted for , t this he S most uperin congenial tendent work of the ' b S t ravelling ols , he throug prepared hout
the civilized worldand inspecting personall y y the educational valuabl systems e hin of ts every , country ticularl that from had the schools any . Having of Prussia obtained and y
Switzerlandhe , par turned to Americaand entered upon his task of due supervision to him , Thi wit s work great he energy left . wh Many en , an im earnest portant cal reforms l from the are
from West the came cradle . , and to vi he gorous under ma took turity the . Mr work . Mann of rearing was a radical Antioch in
p all oli his tics , life and been an indep a personal enden to t be U friend ni found tarian of the in in reli the late gion heart Theodore , having of the Parker durin ri g .
Yet , as the the blossom Puritan is ideain an advanced and cultivat ed form app , is freuently to be found , in the characters and creeds of
sinners t the he mos Puritan , , t recognizing here q which tical t d hinkers ivided no intermediate all t mankind New E shades ngland sharp t between . ly The int i den snow s sain everit t toward t - white y and of
t and he s jet tuden -black ts , appeared scrupulousl in he y feeling obeyed of the he re P g ulations of the t C ollege f , and those s devo who tion offended was boundles even s in to small the latter things he . was To
ormer , , P cold residen and t , har and d as many steel think . This that was it his required only fault just as that a t Colleg nature tt e ,
and the discipline which arose from it , to pioneer an insiuion H which owever all t admi his tted be to be i t t is rying certain a somewhat that he at perilous all times experiment held up , . may
before the students and , professors , in his own life , a high and spotless and i standard ous elouence ; and t h e t , w b y h the is exact j t ust ice and admira his tion warm of respec
all . cop His rigid ad q herence , to principle is well illustrated in the following stronneed incident of 60000 . Wh dollars en Antiocli to off was some started debt . there One was of the a pay
rich g negrophobists , , a class much more numerous then than now , offered to pay 10 , 000 cluded dollars from of the it , if coloured per Let sons it
perish should first be , , " as said students Horace , ex Mann . And that College he meant . " what he said oun was ne proved ro who by had the once presence been a slave in the in G lecture eoria -rooms and whose of a g
progress y orator g Mr g sufficientl . Mann ' s y gifts vindicated were very his great right . to I shall be there never , . As forget an
Antioch College. 225
ANTIOCH COLLEGE . 225
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/9/
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