New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-16
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A special committee son Agricultural College,
from the legislature Of Ohio, sitting at Columbus
have lately been on an excursion to PorkoPotis
and the neighhoring villages. Among other " u
stitutes of learning. they visited the ONO female
| College where COLLATION. had been prepared for
4 them entertainment.
The long tables, Of which there were I'VE,
! seemed to- be preoccupied for along one side OF
each stood row of young ladies, dressed in hoii.
day attire, ready and evidently impatient to be
/ seated to the feast before them. The happy de-
mostly gentlemen, being directed TO take seats al
the sides OF the tables opposite the young ladies'
who were the pupils of the college. OF course
there was no hesitation, though some of the younger
men, with bachelor tendencies, did blush more OF
less, until the artless young ladies opposite hegar
passing refreshments to Them she scene soor
became lively, and taking all in all, The snmptuou
dinner along with the smiles and wit Of the fail
ones SO shrewdly distributed, we never witnessed
a more satisfactory occasion of the kind. Mem
befs of the legislature expressed themselves al
ready to vote to accept the Ohio Female College
if it thould be offered, and startled Gen. Cary with
the fact that this part of the days proceedings
hadTaised up rival to the Farmers College.
EXHIBITION OF GYMNASTICS.
From the dinner table the visitors were CON
Quoted to the gymnasium hall, where, IN lew
minutes, Prof. Charles S. Royce, the eminent
trainer of human mechanism tor the Development
of muscle and mind as well, in several OF our best
private institutions Of learning, made his appear
ance with his wands and dumb bells. At the tap
of the drum and the first notes of lively tune on
the piano. a file of young ladies marched into the
| hall, seemingly the same with whom we mad olnea
| but so different and witchingly cunning ID thelf
uniform and neatly fitted black CATERS, Turkish
trousers, short skirts, and gaily eolored, loose
bodices, that one could hardly credit the trans
formation. Marching and counter marching until
they filed the body of the hail. they came TO malt
tath m fnltovy
their teacher through the almost endless variety of
motions, with hands, head feet and body, that the
science of free gymnastics prescrlbes Tor the at
tainment and preservation of health, strength and
long life. The performance excited not less the
admirationEthan the wonder of the entranced be-
holders.
When ii Is known that in the fifteen minutes
time there spent, the young ladies went through
two hundred and ftty-nine separate and distinct
movements, each repeated four to eight times, the
comprehensiveness of the exercise may be i'm
agined. 1t would seem that almost every joint
and muscle in the human organization would be
brought into play. And the fact that one part of
the performance. comprising the hundred move
ments, was enacted by the class in unison, without
the lead of the Professor, indicates the remarkable
exercise Of memory and presence Of mind which
this drill requires and this is rendered pecu-
Iiary striking by the circumstance that during this
exercise one-half the class was going through one
set of motions, while the other half was at
every moment performing an entirely different
set III
at the conclusion of the performance, the visi-
tors gave the Young gymnasts hearty applause,
and we heard more than one legislator express the
belief that in the acceptance OF the Ohio female
college for one Of the agricultural colleges of the
State, these agile and rosy faced bloomers might
probably be received along with tiff not as
farmers, at least to become the healthful and use
full wives of such.
On taking leave Of the institution, there was
great demand by the members of the general as
sembly for catalogues, and we doubt not the next
session will record great increase of patroage
from among the daughters of the honorable gem
tlemen.
The above extract is from the Cincinnati Ga
zette. We presume the principal object of the
Ohio female college is to prepare young ladies
for pantoinime and the ballet.