Plan for Improving Female Education - Couverture souple

Willard, Emma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 089783044X ISBN 13 : 9780897830447

Editeur : Larlin Corp, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Willard Emma Hart Brainerd Ezra

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Explanatory Note Timely interest in the enclosed pamphlet written by Emma Willard, pioneer in the education of women at Middlebury, Vermont, over 100 years ago, is given by the fact that Mrs. Russell Sage, who was a great admirer of the work of Mrs. Willard, has just left to Middlebury College the sum of $100,000. The Middlebury Register in its issue of November 22, 1918, contains the following interesting statement by Dr. Ezra Brainerd, president-emeritus of the College, indicating how Mrs. Sage became interested in Middlebury: A bout thirty years ago I received an invitation to give a talk on the life and work of Emma Willard during the twelve years she lived in Middlebury when from 20 to 32 years of age. This talk was to be given before the Emma Willard Association in New York City, at the home on Fifth A venue of Mrs. Russell Sage, who was the President of the A ssociation. I met there an interesting company who held in high esteem the mature matron under whose guidance they had graduated from the famous Ladies Seminary in Troy. It was not difficult to interest them in an account of Emma Willard searly life and of her confessed indebtedness to Middlebury College for her advanced views regarding the higher education of women. I succeeded in securing $2000 for an Emma Willard scholarship in Middlebury College. The following year came an invitation to address them again, and to publish a pamphlet containing the substance of my talks. This was done at the expense of a New York lawyer, a former pupil of mine, whose mother in Vermont was a graduate of the Troy Seminary. The pamphlet passed through two editions of 500 copies each, most of which were placed in the hands of Mrs. Sage for distribution to the graduates of the Troy Seminary. This pamphlet was later republished by the United States Bureau of Education, Circular of Information No. 4, 1900; wholenumber
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Présentation de l'éditeur

A ddress, is to convince the public, that a reform, with respect to female education, is necessary; that it cannot be effected by individual exertion, but that it requires the aid of the legislature; and further, by shewing the justice, the policy, and the magnanimity of such an undertaking, to persuade that body to endow a seminary for females, as the commencement of such reformation. The idea of a college for njiales will naturally be associated with that of a seminary, instituted and endowed by the public; and the absurdity of sending ladies to college, may, at first thought, strike every one to whom this subject shall be proposed. I therefore hasten to observe, that the seminary here recommended, will be as different from those appropriated to the other sex, as the female character and duties are from the male. The business of the husbandman is not to waste his endeavours, in seeking to make his orchard attain the strength and majesty of his forest, but t6 rear each, to the perfection of its nature. That the improvement of female education will be considered by our enlightened citizens as a subject of importance, the liberality with which they part with their property to educate their daughters, is a sufficient evidence; and why should they not, when assembled in the legislature, act in concert to effect a noble object, which, though dear to them individually, cannot be accomplished by their unconnected exertions.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Larlin Corp
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 089783044X
• ISBN 13: 9780897830447
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 44
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