Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-07-28

you AnNo some Accouht " WV e"n~~' N@eNiihe'
ton Of the Lake Erie Female Seminary, IS Il
appeared on Wednesday. Permit me 70 oIer q
word IN reference 10 the oenCludng exercises Of
this aoniversary oecasi0n, on Thursday, a,
this was day Of very special interest Zee
IL to be due no less to this Ins,itatiou, than Z,
the csuse Of educatisB 10 general, to call atten
tiOn again to this subject and 10 speak the earn
est words Of truth aud duty 10 relation to It
The people shoOld know, aud feel TOO, what I
precious interest they have here 10 their midst
not for Pninesville alone. as the suspicion toe
often is, but for Ashtabula county aud ell BorIh
eastern Ohio, that they may cherish Il as child
tender aud beloved.
look to this Institution as revolutlonise
In the business Of Instruction, that Is ere long
to extend its influence to every district, neigh
bOrhood and family, and shall have the eject
in the increased demand for thorough teaching
to send with shame back to tho schools for
something like competency, or forever from the
profession, the sickIy pretenders under whose
bancful niuistrations too manifesty this whole
region now painfully labors.
will not at this time, go into tho reasons
why education 10 this part Of the State is at SO
| low ebb, or our schools so inefficient
The obvious fact itself should arouse the
people TO the inquiry. aud to a more just appre'
citation Of the elements OF good in their midst.
| No one, think, could listen TO the examine
tiops of Wednesday, OF which you have already
spoken, and those on Thursday morning, which
did not, 10 any respect fall behind, but il posi-
ble exceeded in perfectness, those OF the pre-
yious day, without feeling that the revolution
bad already begun in the earnest, thorough
scholarly preparation, and just where reforma
ton is most needed, promising and hopeful
And as this Institution shall send forth its grad
thoroughly furnished, as it was evident 10 oil
we're those Of the present class, Zone Of whom
am happy to know, Is to teach 10 neighbor
ing Academy who can estimate the influences
for good upon families whose daughters wsr
there instructed 10 sound learning and piety
upon neighborhoods and communities, some o
whose numbers have been touched with tn,
Promethean fire, upon schools, whose high pri
Vilsge it shall be to have in gentle woman. cen
trail Iuminary, polished after the simitude Of
palace"
The anniversary exercises took place in tht
grove, just back OF tho Seminary, and we're at
tended by very largo assembly. Rev. Presi
dent Sturtevant of Illinois College made tht
opening prayer. Rev. Mr.. Storrs Of Cincinua
! Ii, gave the anniversary address.
Rev. DR.. Hitchcock, Of Hudson College, I'D
dressed the graduating Glass; and The Rev. Mr.
Phelps Of PaiuesvilIe, pronounced the beuedic
ton.
! Mr. Storrs' address was a bold and mani
presentation of humiiating, but as the speake
evidently thought, wholesome truths. He be
gan by stating, without discussion, four propos
tous in regard TO female education. as at pre-
sent very generally admitted
! lst. That woman should be educated.
I'd. That this education should be thoroug
and protracted.
3rd. That it should be open 10 the middl
and poorer classes.
4tb. That it should be religious in its chal
acter and influence.
He then announced bis subject 10 be the po
sition and intellectual necessities Of educater
women. In the discussion of this subject
which continued about an hour, many sever
structures were let fall as, that high intel
lectual position Of women in this country wa
rarely maintained. That the educated women
though promising well in the beginning, com
monty lail.to grow intellectually after finishing
their academic course, and consequently to kee
10 sympathy with their more thinking husbands
brothers and sons making it imperative on th
latter to seek other than female society for il
tellectual stimulus. That. however promising
and successful in the schools however brigh
and beautiful the morning, for the most part i
was sure to settle down into q very ordinar,
bind Of day.
The speaker then proceeded to set forth th,
remedy TO be found. LIST. in reading, as fur
nishiug the materials Of thought; not of novels
not Of the modern Sunday school literature
nor yet Of the newspapers but of works o
science of and solid worth, at least in propoI
ton OF six to one Of the former. I'd, in cor
versation, for elegance and freedom Of expires
sion. Sd, in composition, pursued for sccurac
and defniteness OF thought To the commo
objection OF want OF time for this extende
course Of mental culture, the speaker suggeste
economy, and change Of habits, fntimatin
She tendency, Of the sge. in the fact that bur
dred horse power sewing machine seemed les
likely now TO save time. than TO multiply 6our
ess for the last Paris fashion.
| Nevertheless this address with all its severit
Of criticism, SO eolrleously and defereutiall.
spoken, was listened to with interest, and, l be
lieve, was favOrabIy received by the fair ant
highly apprecative audience. accounted for il
part, perhaps, on the ground Of conviction, ant
in part, it may be- that these structures fell rath
er from the loving lips Of devoted husband
than some esptious bachelor.
1t is impossible in this brief notice TO do jus
tice to this address. hope it will be publish
ed, that this glorious reform may 10 due tim,
be fully initiated.
On the whole this 6rst anniversary occasion
! was a complete success, aud well calculated Il
inspire the friends Of the Institution with r,