Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-07-14
If his usefulness in not distant commu-

of his usefulness in not distant eommu-
nifty.
Belonging to the earliest period Of my
student life, remember Ann Sheldon,
the type in my young eyes Of all that was
beautiful and excellent in woman. She
among the Oldest, and ! the youngest Of
the girls, was her worshiper, and after
more than thirty years, remember, as q
scene of yesterday, her seat in the semi-
nary chapel and the serene face that shone
in it when Mr.. Clark's evening prayer had
cleared our school atmosphere of all weari-
ness and unrest. How proud were our
young orators who could command and
hold her attention How rich she made
us little ones sometimes with tiny note
expressing sympathy or encouragement
| Miss Russell was queen, and worthy TO
have lived in Walter Raleigh's age. Miss
Ackley, with her grace and vivaeity and
varied gifts, seemed to have dropped from
French court but Ann Sheldon was
our good angel. They have long since
gained the perfect life of Heaven, yet are
the flowers fresh upon their graves.
There will be many gathered around
your table who will gladly celebrate the
later period of the History of the Semin-
airy in which some of us were actors.
| Would some old teacher might be there
to speak word of forgiveness to girls
who hated Latin and Mathematics. How
conld they help it those June mornings,
with such music calling them through
the open windows, and "Dakes' Woods
and Boardman Hill at a beguiling dis
tanoe2 And I hope Martin Love and
Lorin Wainwright will be there to con-
TESS or rather to testify to the usefulness
of mixed institutions in promoting not
only scholarship, but social graces. Would
that John Hawkins were there to sing
with Jane Andrews, the Seminary's prtnad
donna, forever And above all 1 wish
| hat Katy Newell could ise there to show
what woman may be, who mas steadily
sought after wisdom as for hid treasures,
who has gathered from all sources and
sown generously beside all waters.
| And / wish the noble army of teachers
from north, south, east and west could be
there bringing their sheaves with them.
Two large and flourishing girls seminaries
in the near neighborhood of the metro
polls of the Pacific have become centers
of light and culture, which reflect honor
upon the founders. Iu the name of Mrs.
Blake (once Miss Shattuck) of the Oak
land Seminary of Young Ladies" and of
Miss Buckmaster OF Laurel Hail." send
greetings, and from numbers of old
pupils eminent in various walks of public
and private life.
Castleton should cherish the Seminary,
not only for what it has been, but for
what it may become under wider and
more liberal idea of education than the
world was ready to accept even twenty
years ago. Let it became the garden, the
temple, the "estate" of the whole COM
munity; the factory wherein the noblest
manhood and womunhood is developed
and let the beautiful arts, find not merely
a shelter but home in its tospitatle
walls. Let wealth endow it, and culture
enrich it, aud prayer sanctify it, until it
, becomes true exponent, of all that is
best in our memories of the past and our
hopes for the future of New England.
JEANNE c. CARR.