The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-10
II he Boys and Girls at College To-
gether.

In the Home Journal, Mr.. WILLIS gives
an interesting account of bis observations
in recent visit to Antioch College, Ohio.
The influence of each sex, he says, upon
the manners and habits of the other, is found
to be refining, as we'll as stimulative of the
higher ambitions though, naturally, the
effect is stronger upon the older than upon
the younger students. He adds:
No restraint, beyond that of absolute
propriety, is put upon their intercourse.
The recitations and lectures are of course in
common /; but so also are the meals-the
refectory being arranged with small tables
at which they form their own parties of
four or six, eating and conversing together
with the freedom of acquaintance in res.
taurant. Out of study hours they associate
as they please, often forming pic-nics and
finding amusement in the beautiful scenery
of the neighborhood, and mingling much
with the society around. Preferences and
attachments are inevitable, of course but
these, honorably pursued, are not discour-
aged or interfered with; and, though
undergraduate marriages among them are
not common (more particularly while the
lady is "Freshman'), one instance has
occurred of husband and wife taking their
degrees as Bachelors of Arts" at the same
Commencement. One couple of "best
scholars, who had become attached while
"Seniors," and married after graduating,
returned to the college to become each
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upon its principles as safely established,
that love is only an explosive and dangerous
element when bottled up too tightly, and
that free intercourse, between Intellectually
employed persons of both sexes, results in
greater refinement certainly-matrimony
possibly-very rarely in mutual injury. 1t
should be mentioned, perhaps, that the gen.
tie sex has one special oficer-a 'matron," !"
who regulates personal habits by presiding
over the "dormitory," or separate college
building where the female students lodge
and that the present incumbent of
this Office, Mrs. Paine, New Eng
land matron, is exercising a very
marked influence on the college by her
singular efficiency and good Judgment. The
porpose-to gave the mothers of the West q
N0erdt educata0n-ls thus prevented from
having the possible drawback of "scholarly
slovenliness." The well-nown fact that this
is the cheapest place of education in the
world suggests its advantages, as within
reach to humber class in life, but with its
share of noble natures; and among these
last mentioned, we shall certainly number
one young woman who is at present success
fully pursuing her studies at the College,
but who came there without means, and
soon found way to support herself by
hiring as cook to family in the neighbor-
hood. There is Spartan quality in this
which tells we'll as an incident at the "Alma
Mater" of new country. One rather droll
instance of pioneer adaptability is related (:
A clergyman "out West" having written to
the Faculty to say that he had quite fam
lily of boys and girls whom he should like to
have educated, and wishing to know whether
he couldn't get a job of preaching, round
there, to pay their expenses"