Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-20

...;,. has been settled, and that long ago
fr.s.rs i one thing ia which America stand
a.aar,;raut. Il is this: We believe that womeI
ihould he educated according to the measure
81 her desire and capacity. Unrebuked
romen colleges have been established, be
s;des academies and seminsries, and wher
,ba auestion arises as to whether women can
s.re the benefit of q collegiate course, it is
-,a, in This way that we have already more
alleges than we have need of. Why should
wa mt two schools to do the work OF oner
Are women so much like men that they need
but one church, one catechisni, one minister;
alike in almost every thing, and YET so ulner-
ent that they need two sets OF instructors
one for men, and one for women IN Ordinary
matters of education? Why, in all the states
we are erecting new academies and colleges
hundred wears ahead of our pecuniary
means. Why should we be doubling the cost
of education? Why, if Amherst used the
power to instruct these advanced scholars
among women, who wish to be teachers and
professors, and laberers in the highest fields
of science; if Amherst had the liberallty to
do it, would it be necessary to put half a mil
lion dollars into a woman's school at North
ampton, and another five hundred thousand
to make il good for anything? This IS IKE a
man spending every cent Of money IN ouiiu-
ing his factory and yet without cent 10 pay
for an engine to run it.
We have plenty of colleges, II only useu III
Legitimate manner. tits question OF econ
omy. In New England we all understand the
worth of an economic article is cheap
s;gbt cbesner. to educate women with men.
7 fnow that there are other considerations in
the matter. 1t is said am aware, that wo-
men do not want it. If they do not there is
NO trouble. If the women cannot bear the
experiences of collegiate course then they |
viii 90 away. This is what men do when they |
cannot sustain it, and by and by, when it is !
;s understood that It is not the mere glance Of
the eye, the exquisite curl, but that life opens
IN them a fair chance to take on the whole |
armor of education, the opportunity will be |
seized upon believe it will react on the |
health Of the community. If woman is |
strong enough to take care of a baby for ls |
months, and then Is months again, and Is |
months afterwards, and then again Is months |
and then to take care of II children ranging |
all the way up, with husband to look after, |
in addition, with the boys to send to college, |
and the girls to watch over; she does more |
than any student can do. There are no nobler |
spheres than those of the household, but ifl
woman can take care of them she has got
strength enough to get an education. 1t is |
said that it may interfere with the students at
tention to studies. 1t may, but not among the |
young ladies. No woman will ever undertake
4 college course unless she has made up her
mind to 60 through. A great many men
come here as mere matter of routine-lust
because the parental bow shot them here. l
have son want to have come here next
year. he evidently does not care much |
about it, but am bound to have him come. |
A woman who determines to be highly edu-
Gated in the sciences and classics should be |
applauded and helped on.
/ know it is settled that women are differ |
emit from men. Of course they are. know
il is said that they cannot do everything that |
man can do. do not want them to. If you |
plant rose tree and lilacs in the same ground, |
the plants and flowers will bear their respec-
tive flowers and foliage. So from a collegiate |
course woman will take that which assimilates
with her own nature, and will be a woman still, |
and not q womanish man. was brought up
in my sisters school at Hartford. That ac- |
counts for my womanish ways. But it is all |
outside for l am inside man. A woman
would make a womanish use Of this educa-
lion, and that is what want to see, woman's
own influence brought to bear in art and lit
erature; it is to make her more woman, and
with her power will soon be womanly pure.
Highly developed in culture her refining in
duences will be richer and more heavenly.
Amherst is for universal education. If
man be black and is fully prepared, or wo-
man, and is fully qualified, its doors will open
to them. Amherst should lead in this march
Of progress, and if she does, it will not be
the first time that she has led in progress and
Amherst will do her duty be-
cause she is sent to accomplish great work,
a work which is just and right. (Applause.)