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The Education of American Girls By: Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett (1836-1911) |
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EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLS. CONSIDERED IN A SERIES OF ESSAYS. EDITED BY ANNA C. BRACKETT. "The time has arrived, when like huntsmen, we should surround the
cover, and look sharp that justice does not slip away and pass
out of sight and get lost; for there can be no doubt that we are
in the right direction. Only try and get a sight of her, and if
you come within view first, let me know." PLATO REP. BOOK IV. [Illustration] NEW YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS,
FOURTH AVENUE AND TWENTY THIRD STREET.
1874. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by G. P.
PUTNAM'S SONS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at
Washington, D. C. LANGE, LITTLE & CO., PRINTERS, ELECTROTYPERS AND STEREOTYPERS, 108 TO
114 WOOSTER STREET, N. Y.
TO THE SCHOOL GIRLS AND COLLEGE GIRLS OF AMERICA, BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT THEIR IDEALS ARE HIGH AND THAT
THEY HAVE STRENGTH TO MAKE THEM REAL, This Book is Dedicated BY THE WOMEN WHO, IN THE INTERVALS SNATCHED FROM DAILY LABOR, HAVE WRITTEN IT FOR THEIR SAKES.
PREFACE.
The Table of Contents sufficiently indicates the purpose and aim of this
book. The essays are the thoughts of American women, of wide and varied
experience, both professional and otherwise; no one writer being
responsible for the work of another. The connecting link is the common
interest. Some of the names need no introduction. The author of Essay
IV. has had an unusually long and varied experience in the education and
care of Western girls, in schools and colleges. The author of the essay
on English Girls is a graduate of Antioch, has taught for many years in
different sections of this country, and has had unusual opportunities,
for several years, of observing English methods and results. The essays on the first four institutions, whose names they bear, come
with the official sanction of the presiding officers of those
institutions, who vouch for the correctness of the statements. Of these,
VII. is by a member of the present Senior Class of the University, who
has instituted very exact personal inquiries among the women students.
The author of VIII. is the librarian of Mt. Holyoke Seminary. The writer
of the report from Oberlin is a graduate a teacher of wide experience,
and has been for three or four years the Principal of the Ladies'
Department of the college. The resident physician at Vassar is too well
known as such, to need any introduction. There are many other institutions whose statistics would be equally
valuable, such, for instance, as the Northwestern University of
Illinois, which has not only opened its doors to girl students, but has
placed women on the Board of Trustees, and in the Faculty. From Antioch, which we desired to have fully represented, we have been
disappointed in obtaining statistics, which may, however, hereafter be
embodied in a second edition. In place thereof, we give the brief
statement of facts found under the name of the institution, supplied by
a friend. With reference to my own part of the volume, if the words on "Physical
Education" far outnumber those on the "Culture of the Intellect," and
the "Culture of the Will," it can only be said that the American nation
are far more liable to overlook the former than the latter two, and that
the number of pages covered is by no means to be taken as an index of
the relative importance of the divisions in themselves. Of the
imperfection of all three, no one can be more conscious than their
author. The subject is too large for any such partial treatment. To friends, medical, clerical, and unprofessional, who have kindly
given me the benefit of their criticism on different parts of the
introductory essay, my thanks are due. Especially do I recognize my
obligation to Dr. W. Gill Wylie, of this city, whose line of study and
practice has made his criticism of great value. I cannot refrain from adding that I am fully aware of the one sided
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