Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-06-08
For the CHRONICLE.
Lake Erie Female Seminary.

all over the Reserve-and in many
places outside of those limits and so
want to enlist that voice in behalf
of every young woman in all the re-
gion visited by you. want you to go
to the farm, to the shop, to the store,
to the office, to the fireside, and talk
to the parents of those young women
about the importance of giving them
the best, the most substantial, the
most useful education that four years
diligent study, under a thoroughly
competent corps of teachers, can Sc
cure TO them. Tell them such an edu-
cation is worth infinitely more to their
daughters than houses and lands, and
stocks and bonds. Such an education
is dowery that cannot be burned up,
nor mortgaged, nor stolen, nor squan-
dered. Tell them, too, that the new
doors of usefulness, which are every
year opening to their daughters, de-
mand the best mentaland moral train
ing possible. Already the entire COM
mon school instruction of American
children and youth is passing into the
hands of young wonderland if the
! present movement results in clothing
them with all manner of political du-
ties-women will soon have not only
the mOlding and teaching of the chill
dren of the nation from their birth to
their manhood, but they will exercise
power over the future destinies of
our people, over our government and
over the world-such as man can nev-
er hope to equal or counteract. Tell
these good parents, then, the future
of our country must be what the
young women shall see fit to make it;
and that they will make it bright or
sombre according as their own educa-
ton is complete or defective. Then
tell them that one of the very best
schools to which they can send their
daughters, and where they will re-
ceive the highest aud best education
possible to four years, and where they
can be well prepared for these high
duties, is located at Painesville, Ohio,
and known as The Lake Erie Female
Seminary. Tell them there is not an
other just like it this side of New
England. Tell them there is not an
other in all our broad land that can
compress into the same time, a better
education, or one that will better pre-
pare young women for all the high
and social duties of life.
Ineed not say one word in behalf of
Painesville. Every one who knows
anything OF the place, knows that it !
is the gem of the Reserve. That for
beauty of situation, for healthfulness
of climate-for intelligence, refine
ment, morals and religion of its in
habitants, it is not surpassed by any
city or village in or out of New Eng
land.
The Seminary building is a large,
airy, cheerful and most convenient
brick one, just west of the centre of
the village and stands in a lot of elev-
en- acres. The grounds in front and
on either side are beautified by a rich
green turf, and filed with trees and
ornamental shrubs and flowers, while
the acres lying back of the building
are heavily timbered and furnish a
charming retreat where the young
ladies can walk and exercise. The
social and other arrangements of the
institution are such as to give the pu-
pills as much of home feeling as pos
sible. The board of Trustees are cho-
sen from five or six different religious
denominations so as to ensure the pa
irons against any mere sectarian or
bias; at the same time
they are men of high religious stand
ing, in their several churches, and so
ensure high moral tone to the semi
nary. The teachers are also from diff
ferent denominations, and while both
and pupils attend church
on the Sabbath, they attend
service in those churches to which {
hey belong or which the parents and 9
guardians of the pupils prefer they :
should attend. i
The course of instruction, as already /
stated, occupies four years, known as I
he Junior-Junior Middle-Senior
Middle, and Senior Years.
That parents and their daughters r
nay see that am not talking at ran
lom, will here insert a list of the l
tudies: h
FIRST YEAR.-Haskness' Latin t
Reader, Arithmetic (finished), Alge- y
IRA, History of the United States, An \
ient History (Willson's Outlines, y
univ. Ed Green's Analysis of the b
English Language. Bible: Genesis, b
Exodus, the Gospels, English compo- Il
ition. Il
SECOND YEAR.-Sallust, Arnold's e,
ATTN Prose composition, Playfair's 81
euclid, Modern History, CWillson's Il Il
utlines, Univ. Ed.) Hitchcock's Ply v
iology, Quaekenbos' Rhetoric, 81
iray's Botany. Bible: Joshua, Judg- d
S, Monarchy till the death of Solo II II
non, Acts. English composition. m
THIRD YEAR.-Virgil, Days Trigo- 81
ometry, Stoekhardt's, Chemistry, 81
'lmstead's Astronomy, Olmstead's Is
Tatural Philosophy, Alexander's
,vidences of Christianity, History of
,nglish Literature. Bible: Monarchy &C
ON tn Revolt to the Captivity; He os os
rews, English composition. th
FOURTH YEAR.-Cicero, Dana's pl
eology, Chadbourne's Natural The Ca Ca