Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-08-02
N. W. Va. Academy.

discussion. A PRou1B1r1oN1sT.
N. W. Va. Academy.
The regular Academic year of this
hourishing institution will commence on
the first Monday in SepG.. and will be d.
vided into four terms OF eleven weeks
each.
The terms of tuition will be as hereto
fore, except those i'll the Primary Depart
ment, that are spelling and beginning to
read, will only be charged $3.50 and
those in the primary geography and men
tai arithmetic $3.50. ana payable within
the first month of each term. This,
think, will be satisfactory to all. An adj
diIional department will be fitted up for
the accommodation of students, which
will afford ample room, and accommoda.
ton for two hundred. students.
Teachers of a high order and amply
qualified will have charge of the several
departments. The Principal will have
the general superintendent of all the de-
partments. and will have especial care as
to the government, discipline, and ad-
vancement Of the students in the several
departments.
The female department will still be
continued. The past term has given full.
and satisfactory proJf that the addition of
Il female department is an admirable ar
rangement, and conclusive to the highest
and best interests Of the Academy and
community generally.
That educating the sexes together is
becoming common and important, may
be seen from The following extract of Ho-
race Mann's inaugural address, president
of Antioch College. Ohio. who is one of
the first educators in America
Z" EDUDcArroN OF YoUNo MEN AND Wo.
MEN.-AaliOch College. at Yellow Springs
Ohio, over which Horace Mann pre-
sides, it is understood, is open to male
and female students. In his inaugural
address he argues the propriety. nay the
necessity, of educating young men and
young women in the same Seminary, and
under the influences Of regulated social
mpanionship. After setting forth The
true condition of such education and meet
ing the usual round Of objections thereto,
Mr.. Mann sums up on This head as fol.
lows:
Besides and beyond all this, l believe
that the daily meeting of the sexes, with
occasional meetings in social circles, will
be mutually advantageous TO them. L.
Will work both moral restraint, and intel
Icctunl excitement. The innate regard
which each sex has for the other sex.
over and above what it has for the same
good qualities its own-lha difference
between friendship ana love-is too pre-.
cious and too powerful an agency to be
thrown away in the education of either.
believe it TO be an agency which God
meant we should make use Of to promote
the refinement, the. elevation Of them both.
believe 1t may be made to supcrsede
many OF our coarse and crude instruments
OF dlscIPIlne-thc gQads and bludgcons Of
punishment which are now employed to
rouse young men from the slupefaction
of idlencss or to beat them back from the
gatc-ways Of sin
And what state Of society does it in.
FlnclbIy argue, among parents and the
community at large. ii young men and
and young women cannot be brought to-
gether to pursue those ennobIing studies,
and to receive those apt instructions which
pre'emlnentIy fit them for the highest du-
Ties OF their common life, without mutual
peril And where in reason, or in. Di.
vine command, is there warrant or pre-
text for the doctrine that those whom
God mingles in the family by birth, and
whom, through the sacred ordinance Of
marriage he designs for still closer re-
latlon in after lie. where, l ask, is there
any authority, human or divine. for seiz
ing and violently separating these same
parties for four, six, or ten Of the middl.
years Of their existence ?-those verv
years when they can best prepare them
selves by the elevation of whatever is in
them OF good and the suppression Of what.
ever is in them of bad, for future com.
partnership SO intimate as to be lot in
identity. Such separation is obviously
unnatural and lift be necessary for The
preservation Of sexual purity, It is time
that the whole community should TAX.
the alarm, and hasten to devise a less
monstrous remedy"
R. A. ARTHUR, Principal.
AN ArFRAY AT WHEEL1No On Sat.
urday last. personal collision occurred
at Wheeling, Va. between Mr.. Bartleson.
proprietor of the Gazette, and Dr.. era.
craft, the postmaster in this city. Itgrew
out OF publication in the Gazette "a