Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29
Reduce the Expense Of Culture.

Lyon dld IN her benevolent ana seli-denying
life, was greatly to reduce the expense OF
good female education. She made such ed
ucatioh possible, and secured IL 10 large
numbers that would otherwise nave grown
up without either culture oil the mind or
heart Before she began her WORK the ex-
pehse OF female education was very 'nuch
IKE that OF young men at the present DAY IN
ourexpensive colleges IL was such that put
lew families could meet 1t. There was
KIND oil general sentiment that female eau
cation must be costly, artistic and snowy.
Those that could not pay the price must go
without the culture Besides forbidding
good education to thousands who were to be
the wives, mothers and teachers oil the ram
lily, the church and the state, this state oil
things tended strongly to create KIND oil
lady aristocracy, aud prevent these educated
ladies doing what true education fits those
that obtain 1T to do 1t was defective aud
false. Miss Lyons aim was to make 1t prac-
tical and Christian. She sought to create
such an interest in society as would secure
good education to females in the common
walks of life-such as was practical for the
young men of that day and at much less cost
than that of the young man. This she ac-
compfished. Her clear, calm enthusiasm and
devotion to Christ and his redeemed, opened
and established a school for women, where
board and instruction, training and the best
culture could be obtained for sirty dollars
year.
There is need now that some one rise up
aud do for large numbers OF our young men
what Miss Lyon did Tor the young women
The cost OF college education is now so
great, certainly In many OF our colleges
and those that rank hrst, that but few young
men or their parents can meet it, The
average expenses OF the members OF recent
class at Harvard College are SAID to have
been over thirteen hundred dollars year.
Tuition costs one hundred and nifty dollars
In several Others OF our best furnished col
leges the expense approaches TINS sum- Is
1t not possible ana practicaole 10 furnish
the best advantages oil university Tor
sum much less than thls certainly TINS Is
Zone upon the continent Oh EUROPE Ihere
are scattered all over RUSSIA SCHOOLS where
good classical education can be OBTAINED
correspond 10 our h'gh schoo's ana acade-
MES lhey nave horaries ana philosophi'
cal apparatus ana are under the charge OF
highly trained teacners' ihey are at,ehded'
say rehaole reports 10y more than eighty
thousand day scholars great numbers OF them
the sons oil shop-Keepers ana people Oh httie
property IL BOY aspires 10 higher or
professional educatioh Ill ucrhahy' ne can
nave at cost oil from twenty-five 10 sew
enty-five dollars year. the best training IN
schools oil law, Incidence phi'osophy' theol-
ogy, and other branches oil learning, or IN
mechanical and engineering science, Inc
professors are men OF eminence III their de-
partments, whose reputation rests on the SOLID
work OF a hie' At ooeri'h' ohio' ac-
cording 10 the FTeSoy'er'dh' mol a lie" Oh the
students get 'hrough the year WITHOUT spend
ing over one hundred ana hity doiiars' all
Told Iwehty'seven collars year covers
the entire cost oil tuition' lncidehtais' ana
library fees IN even the highest depart
ments' Board ana rooms III the town are
very cheap Yet we are much peh'nd Ter
many IN THESE respects ana IN the general
Infusion oil education which such adVan'
tages give Inc problem TO be solved then
among us-and 1t Is calling louder and
louder Tor solution from year TO year-is,
not to cheaper the culture OF our schools
aud colleges but to lessen the expense oil
obtaining TINS culture 80 TO reduce the ex'
penses OF the best culture is, we believe
one OF the ways to meet the difficulties oi
the tmes-the difiicuities that arse iro"
ignorance and help the rich to be richer al
the expense OF the poor issue IN the corrnp
ton OF wealth. STRIKES bankruptcy repudi
alton and general prostration' we mus