The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-01-19
For The Nonparoil.
OUR FEMALE SEMINARY" IT.

| Ms, Ep1Tos-Iu common with many 9TH
ers. was taken BY surprise at the announce
ment in the last Noapareil-that We have .
"Fenale Seminary" in our city; that Mr..
RTE, of the s.Male L Female High School,
has sent his males adrift, and is henceforsn
to devote himself to females exclusively
And what is to become Of the maiess Are
We to have Male Seminary ?-or is it
thought that the poor facilities afforded by
our Common Schools are sufficient for the
! males? ..
! PITY it is, that the excellent remarks OF
Mrs. WRIGHT, on the subject Of educating
( the seres together, which were Published in
/ the Nonparei two weeks ago, and also the
/ opinions of some of the ablest teachers and
scholars of our country on the same subject,
should have received so little attention and
consideration at the hands of the projectors
of this new .'Female Seminary"
/ PITY it is, that the same interest was not
manifested in establishing good graded
! or Union High School, or an Academy, in
our city, where every facility would be at
forded for youths Of both sexes, to acquire
a good practical EDUCATION. Then We could,
with pride, invite young men and women
from neighboring towns, and the country
round, to seek admission within its halls.
Such schaol would be credit and blessing
to our city, and much more likely to be pat
ronized by students from abroad, than this
"Female Seminary"
Some, | know, object to educating the
sexes together, on the ground that their
morals will be impaired. But do such ever
reflect that the morals Of their children are
far more likely to be impaired by the ming
Cling of the sexes indiscriminately in the
midnight dance, and other places of meeting,
where they are often heated with wine and
exctement-thant they are by meeting in the
school-room, under the eye of their teacher !?
Many, who hesitate not to permit their
daughters to associate with men Of ques-
tionable morals anywhere and everywhere
ont Of HE school room, will hail with delight
the announcement that we have "Female
Seminary" where their daughters may not
be in danger of contamination from the
other sex while pursuing their studies in the
school-room Pity such parents did not
always guard their children with equal care,
when out of the schooi-room Vice, and
immortality, and profanity, would have far
! fewer followers
do not wish to say one word in dispar
agement of the gentleman who has been
selected as Principal of our new Seminary.
| believe him to be competent for the post
to which he has been appointed; but |
abominate all ordinary so-called ''Female
! Seminares - and never yet saw young
! lady who graduated at one, who was any the
/ better for having been there; or who would
| not have known more, and been better fitted
for tho practical duties of life, had she
graduated at Oberlin, or Antioch, or Lima.
or some other Of the really good schools,
where the sexes are educated together, and
an honorable emulation encouraged.
But, people will differ on this, as on
every other subject; SO ! will drop it. after
expressing the hope that the day is not dis
tant, when we shall have a good " Union
! high School," well supplied with books,
maps, charts and globes, and competent
! teachers of both sexes, where we may send
our boys and girls to be educated together,
and their minds fitted for the relations they
are hereafter to occupy towards each other
and the world. Such scho oil will be worth
more than dozen "Female Summaries"
In conclusion, beg leave to suggest the
propriety of styling our new school Semin-
ary for Young Ladies, instead of "Female
| Seminary" There arc so many kinds of
females in the world, that it may be ques-
| toned whether it is females of the human
species, or female something else, that are
to be educated. prefer the good old word
,comGn to that of lady or female, and |
never hear or see female substituted for
woman, without wishing to censure him who
uses it. A school for Boys-a school for
Girls-a Boys and Girls High School
surely sounds better, and is more appropri-
ate than Male Collese-a Female Seminary
"A "Mae and Female High School," &C.
How often We see paragraphs in the news
papers telling o: some incident occurring to
female who was going somewhere, or doing
something. How it would sound to say
"as male was passing up street, he encoun-
tered" &c. Would not the question arise
at once, uhat Kind Of a male? Would not
the good word man sound better, and be
better understood? Yetit is no more ABSURD
to substitute male for man, than i. is TO
substitute female for woman. tits generally
we'll understood that women and girls are
females, but as all females are not virls or
women, it is far more sensible and proper
to use the words that will fully convey the
meaning intended. In speaking Of woman,
let her be called uoman and not female,
just as in speaking of man, We call him
nan-not a male. .~,
So would that our Seminary could be
styled Seminary for Girls-or, a. It would
give greater satisfaction to most people, and
sound little more stylish--a Young Lsdi.,
Seminary. -
MR.. Stewards REMARKS ON PACIFIC
RAILROAD BILL.
In Congress On Saturday last, when the
Pacific Railroad House bill was in,r oduced,
Mr.. Seward said:
That he should vote for the bill, although
be had some objections to il. He n,efsrysd