The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-09-11
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
4 Visit to Poushkeepsie and Q
Ramble Through the Halls of
vassar. AMagnificent Institu-
ton. What it Does for the High
eH Education Of American Wom-
an. iz ef-i .&lgI ..Ei
NV YORK. Aug. 2oth. 1s70.

NEW YORK, Aug. 10Th, 1879.
A few days ago . trip mp the hudson River,
made partly for business and partly for
pleasure, brought me in the neighborhood
Of Poughkeepsie. Here, certain friends.
bent upon showing me the objects Of inter
est, proposed . visit to Vassar College.
had never Investigated that wonderful seat
of learning, though from the time Of ite
foundation, my ears had been nned with Its
renown.
Poughkeepsie, lying ON the Eastern bank
OF the river, IL easily reached hy rail from
North, South, East or West, at nearly every
hour in the day, and 1t IL also connected
with Albany and New York by several lines
of steamboats,. Its educational institutions
give instruction to some 100 students
every year.
Pre-eminent, however, In the minds of all
Americans, in connection with Poughkeep-
sic, stands Vassar College.
The college grounds cover q space Of two
hundred acres, . third Of which has been
ornamentaIly laid out by the celebrated art
lists Olmsted and vaux. The remainder Is
used - farm and garden. In describing
the buildings and grounds cannot do 20
more effectively than In the words Of Rev.
h. Mcfarland, who has written exhaustively
on the subject to scribner's Magazine. He
said:
Going out from Poughkeepsie, soon after
entry upon the College grounds, you pass
through the gateway and porter's lodge.
This structure is utilised by Its s6ording
two. dwellings for the families of men en-
ployed on the College Farm. At . straight
distance Of 1.eoO feet stands the main Col
lege building, the roadway thither nanked
right and left with evergreens.
These superb facilities for producing the
"mens sana In sano corpore," and for devel
oping aesthetic taste, are In constant use.
BY college regulation each student save In
stormy weather, is to be out on the grounds
twenty minutes every day, and sixty min
utes every other day. They may go when
they Ike, II not engaged in recitations o.
other College exercises, but 20 they must
and 20 they do. Nor has any instance eve,
been known Of their disturbance in the fro
est use OF an The grounds.
~NeEthsard Of the, college. on Its front
lies . circular flower garden, . half-mile IL
circumference, worked wholly by such stu
dents a. enroll themselves members of thu
FLORAL Society.
1t IL an admirable sight to look upor
these grounds, nlled with bright and happy
girls, Walking, gardening. engaged II
games, rowing on the lake, or occasionally
making ready, in some shady reeess, fol
work In class rooms. iif-e-
nlIt is > constant Joy at Vassar to see tha
bodily health II not to be sacridced to any
other object whatever, and that, 80 far u
the result Il attainable by means within IL
power, those whom It educates are to be
cone physically we'll developed, vigorous
and graceful women, prepared TO take en-
nahteued care Of their own health and tha
Of others under their charge. In the pas
training OF our countrywomcn this end hai
been 60 much neglected that We shall pre-
cent N fhis connection, and for the sake o
unity, what else We noted In our visit which
Induced NJ to believe this. Diet and regi
nsu were fully laid before rs. We eat q
TIE College table, and bear witness TO IL
variety, Wholesomenees and fullncss. Nc
naa can 60 With the steward through Al hi.
department and miss the conviction w
have expressed.