The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-11-13
FOR GIRLS.

1 Oh DOSJOn, HAS ''ccH iii9'''''" 90
/ President of Mills College for Girls
at Oakland, Cal. In his inaugural
address Mr.. Sprague said some note
worthy things, including the fol-
lowing: Marriage is not thing to
be sought or stunned; but one
thing is sure, highly-educated
woman, if married, will make
home happy. Anybody can get
rich by stealing; she must get rich,
if at all, by superior sagacity, dill
gencc and economy. Excellence in
bodily graccs can be secured by
thorough instruction in physiology
and hygiene; by unceasing efforts
under wise direction to overcome
defects; by systematic and varied
sports and recreations out of doors,
and the best of light gymnastics
within doors by some daily ply
steal employment that has an ele-
ment of utility, perhaps a form of
housework; by temperance in cat
ing and drinking; by careful obedi-
ence to all the laws that God has
impressed upon the body; by purity
of heart, benevolence of thought
and Righteousness of life. A. Bron-
son Alcott, at the age of eighty, at
tributed his sound health to his
having kept the Ten Commandments.
Intellectual perfection is to be the
leading aim: mental excellence is
attainable by all. The object is not
ambitious display; the more educa-
ton the more modesty. The value
of the study of foreign languages
depends rather upon the habit it en-
gcnders and fixes of their obserya-
ton and careful reflections. AS
combining mental discipline with the
commonest utility, the study of the
English language and literature is un-
surpassed. A thorough understand
ing of the three great English
classics-the Bible, Shakespeare and
Miton-wOuld be better than the
entire education given IN nine-tenths
of the colleges. Unworthy motives
must be discountenanced. Prizes
for relative superiority ought per-
haps never to be given in a girls
school. Women were not made to
be competitors, but helpmates of
each other as we'll as of men. If
such stimulus be needed, the fact
proves that the teachers are incom-
petent. 1t is better to be an in
different scholar than to be stimu-
lated to greater learning by the sole
desire of out-doing somebody else.
The emulation SO fostered would
seem to be the very essence of sell
fishness it's natural outcome, deceit,
hardness, Ishmaelism. Of all the
elements of the civilization of this
century, perhaps no other has made
a progress so vast as education. But
the most salient feature of this
education has been the advance of
education of woman. In the year
1900 there was probably not an in
stitution, even in favored New Eng
land, in which girl could pursue
q collegiate course. Now there are
at least 120 institutions where col
legiate courses are open to young
women on equal terms with men.
There are $4,000 women now study
ing in colleges expressly designed
for ladies', besides 1900 academies
for girls and an almost indefinite
number of normal schools for the
preparation of teachers. The lady
students here outnumber the men
two to one.
The above summary of Mr..
Sprague's address is partly abstract
and partly extract, the object being
to give in small compass not only
the line of thought pursued but also
some of the happy expressions used.
AS there are many resident Hawaiian
families having young lady members
in that college, we have thought
that space would be well employed
in presenting 4 view of the new
master mind of the institution.
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