Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-07-25
Lake Erie Female Seminary.

| AS this noble Institute has just hald its ninth
anniversary. with its usual very interesting eX-
ercises we wish to take advantage of the fact
to say something about its origin, character,
and prospects, for the information of our read
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Mount Holyoke Seminary, at South Hadley,
Mass, had been in successful operation for
years, under the care Of that fioblcst of fe-
males, educators, Mary Lyon. She and Rev
r, Hawks had counseled together and coop
Grated in the originating and establishing of
that school, so unlike and SO superior to all
Other seminaries for the education ofyoung
women: The ideas lying at the foundation OF
this school and giyingit its marked peculiari-
/ ties were - .-..-. . ..'..t.' ...-.... .-
l. To furnish as thorough and complete an
education as could possibly be given in three
years time, so complete indeed, that no amount
of money could secure better one in the same
| length of time. ,.t t....... rom !r.i, i..
2. So to arrange the entire machinery of
the school as to reduce the expense to the low
est possible point, thereby opening the school
to the daughters of the poor as well as the
rich. e. . - ......g sd ~ yt.s5 ,l.iif.-, --.
| g. Engrafting upon the whole the princi-
pies of benevolence and perfect equality, there
by recognising no distinction but that of merit
and talent. .ieEaE .,1-@ii1rf slH ,'@;s-f
t. Moulding and cementing all the parts
by the holy and attractive idea of the family
with its sympathising, cheerful, and pious in
-fiuences.
s. Infusing into the whole the most Sieci-
dedly religious life but free from all sectarian-
ism. i..sys -f... ..,ft uYs8l..1 Jls. .Iifnl 4..i
These were the fundamental ideas on which
Miss Lyon and MIR. Hawks built Mt Holyoke
Seminary, The mighty influence of these
ideas were soon seen and felt wherever the
graduates of that Seminary were found and
the superiority of its training over thatof other
more costly nd more fashionable schools. was
admitted by all. -,
In 1853 the friends of female education in
Northern Ohio felt the need of something diff
ferent and better than any yOther school estab-
lished for this purpose. Mr.. Hawks came llp-
on the ground from Holyoke, thoroughly yers-
ed in all its principles and details Various
locations on the Reserve were examined. as to
their fitness for another Mt ;HolyokeAand
finally Painesvile was selected; magnificent
lot of IA acres, partly wooded, and lying with;
in the corporation and just on the west edge of
the village, was purchased-a Board of Trus-
tees, composed of gentlemen of different reli-
gious denominations we're chosen, q large and
beautiful building erected, and the school was
opened in the fall of 1853, under corps of
able teachers, all graduates of Holyokea From
that time the Lake Erie Female Seminary has
been in full and successful operation, and has
graduated some of the finest scholars, and no.
blest and best women in the land. =, i.l....
+ In its course of study-in fits domestic ar
rangement, in its social, moral and religious
influences, it is purely another HolyokeJ
Of all the Seminaries and Colleges establish
ed for the education of young women, Mt. Ho-
lyOke acknowledges but two of them as her
own daughters, and we are happy to saw. our
Lake Erie Seminary is one of the twou 1t has
all the features and characteristics of the
mother, and no others. And that mothers
blessing is fully given to it.
All the domestic work is done by the young
ladies--not with the idea of teachinq them do
mestic work, but for the threefold object of fur.
nishing a small amount of healthy exercise
daily-of diminishing the, expenses of the
school, and of avoiding the intOlerable annoy
anee which would result from dependence on
a large number of servants. s11b T3alis ... o.
The expense at the present time is $3.50 per
annum for tuition and board. The daughters,
of missionaries and Ministers in service are
charged but $3.50. '' e'-'-' 90 &c
Itwll be seen that this sum is but frael
ton of the expense incurred in the SO called
fashionable schools-and is 50 small that most
parents will find they can better afford to send
their daughters to this Seminary than to keep
them home. - - -S'lt ''' '.'i''. 80 ~ u
We unhesitatinglyi say there is no better
school in all the country And we find that
we are comforting favor, on parents in call
ing their attention to this seminary. Here, in
addition to o thorough education, your dangh-
tiers will receive that iudicious watch and care
which is exceeded only by that of the most
intelligent and pious parents, in the house
hold, -. - ..f,-..,. .,lfi ,i, an.
In conclusion, we advise all t, -
PARENTS SEEKING AN INSTITUTION INA
That offers to their daughters educational ad-
vantages of tbe very best character, and one SO
arranged and conducted as to render the tran
stiOn from the h6me circle to the boarding
school less abrupt and unnatural, one, too, all