The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-08-30
For the Minnes0tiau .
Female Education. ssa si

IAO oo'0AASAoA VI ehO OitASuS VI ILLS teTTltOFy
to the Importance and necessity of their CO.
operation in the work in which we are about
to engage. We hardly need to say that for
the past ten years our labors have been de-
voted to the cause of female education. Be
coming deeply impressed with the vast i'm
portance of educating the girls and young
ladies of our country who in turn are to be-
come the early educators of the men and wo-
men who shall control the civil and political
affairs of our great nation, it will appear evil
dent that we look upon our mission as one OF
no trivial Importance. But although we our
selves are thoroughly convinced of the inn
mense influence that the women of the coun-
try exert in giving the mind its earliest fash
ionings, although we see clearly enough that
if the education of either sex must be neg
lected by far better had it be of those who
by the struggles of life in contact with the
restless world, with men and business must
become if not book worms and scholars, &C
tive intelligent citizens and men of influence
and position.
Although we ourselves can clearly discover
that the neglect of suitable training may
pre-eminently unfit for the duties of wife
strew her path with thorns and indeed EN-.
bitter whole lifetime, and as a mother re-
suit in the terrible realization of the iniquity
Of the parents upon the children to the third
and fourth generation; yet we may fail, pro-
badly shall fail to convince very many that
too little stress is placed upon the sound and
thorough education of thedaughters of Amer
lea even in the oldest States and in the sec.
tons of our country most highly favored
with educational privileges.
How often do we hear of those who have
lived in constant round of dissipation and
frivolity; whose lives have been aimless as
they have been useless mere butterflies Of
fashion; despising labor whose strongest
mental pabulum CLEANED from the fashion
plates of the latest novel OF heartless small
talk of purely conventional society when
broken in fortune and totally unfit for any.
thing else, bestowing the boon of their Won
derful talents upon the profession of instruct,
ing the young.
But if we seek Merkman to bald us
house, mere resting place for day, do we
not require that he have experience and abil-
ity? Will we allow our dwelling of wood OF
stone to rise in uneouth proportions through
the neglect or ignorance of the architect
But of how vastly higher the importance
that those who give tone and character, who
shape and mould the plastic minds of oul
children be qualified by the highest educa-
ton and the teachings Of experience to mould
Alright those dearer to us than Orr lives.
We denounce the quack and charlatan IL
unmeasured terms, as trifers with health
and humsn life, and would incarceTate in the
penitentiary those who thus impose their
deleter;ous drugs and practices upon society:
but how infinitely worthy is he of rebuke
and deserving of censure who would lay an
unskillful hand upon the delicate harp of the
intellect rudely sundering it's chords and sc
disturb its harmony that ever after the wal
of discord prociaims the fact of blightec
hope and ruined mind. But lest we tax
your patience we would say that in our effort
in the great North West we come prepared
to furnish you with teachers whose lives have
been devoted to this profession.
We bring to this territory an amount Of
talent that would be creditable to any insti
tuition in the Eastern States and we hope by
the united efforts of the teachers and trus-
tees to illuminate an interest in the cause Of
female education that shall cause every pa,
rent to feel the imminent Importance of pla
cling their daughters under permanent boart
of experienced teachers until they shall have
completed thorough course of useful study
and mental training. We have graduated
our terms by the same scale we had ia ths
East, although it does appear reasonable thai
while every trade and other profession is paic
at ratio of % per cent. ia advance of the
States that We should advance the rates O.
tuition correspondingiy.
We wish it distinctly underst God that We
hold the institution ready to give instruction
in any branches taught in Female Colleges
This could not be done unless we empl .ye6
three or more teachers who could command
liberal salaries ia any part of the country
Assuming this responsibility, we rely upor
the intelligent and responsible people of this
city to determine if by their interest in the
welfare of their children this institution shall
take position as first class Female Col
lege, superior to any school west of Chicago
that shall now and hereafter afford to theil
daughters the same advantages as you will
vainly seek unless you send to Troy, Pitts
field, Philadelphia, or to some other college
at distance of over a thousand miles from
home and that for term of years.
We are making arrangements for the &C
commodation of families in the territory who
would avail themselves of Boarding Schoo
of the highest order. Many entertain very
properly the idea that training of one year
in well regulated family is of more benefit
than years of instruction away from home
as mere Day Pupils.
Others will never subject their daughters
to the trials and inconvenience of a school
abroad unless they can live in the family Of
the teachers.
We are not anxious to receive LARGO nun.