Milford chronicle., 1885-01-16

NlAAudh, We are IN receipt Oh III
Report of the ladies of the Executiv
!" Committee of The Society for til
Collegiate Instruction of Woman a
q Cambridge, Massachusetts,. Tn
0 Society is an Annex of Harvard Col
0 lege, and furnishes to young ladies
D who may desire to extend thei
studies, an opportunity to take th'
full course prescribed for Harvard
students. The enterprise is now il
: its fourth year. "Instead of pre-
senting special difficulties and com
plicatiOns, it has worked simply anC
well. Whether considered as a test
for the genuineness of the desire fol
university education among women
and especially among women desir
ing to teach, or their ability as stu
dents, the result has been most sat
isfactOry. The standard of work
has been high, exceptionally so in a
number of instances, and the inter
est of the Harvard instructors has
kept pace with the zeal of their stu
dents"
The students have no desire for
co-edTcation, nor do they desire to
ontor into I5as 5apetition with the men.
"They simply want tst9e J.. best eduea- a
ton they can get, and tieyp p.s's seek = Z
at Harvard because the means to
that end exist there"
Believing, as we do, that the future
of our country largely depends on
the physical and intellectual adj
vancement of our women, we hail
with pleasure this step towards her
higher education, and hope the
ladies having the matter in hand
will receive the assistance their en-
terprise so abundantly merits.
As our civilization advances,
woman advances with it; in few
years she will undoubtedly be called
upon to exercise I'll the rights and
privileges~hatnge of administration. +.
meHe same time,it is not the desire I
f the people of this country that a.
istinctive glass of pernis-...ss,-.s name j
olders sho0 growd GOV Cleveland ~ y
or should. service reform. dol
mn. 5g. cation, dated peSG-SSI,,+ +,,o
pliit, dfS .qne on 1ebo's- u ABOUT Two
hundred Persons on Friday night.
introduced by Hon. w. F. Causey,
he entertained them for nearly two
hours, his subject being oratory and
orators. He himself is one of the
most distinguished masters of the
oratorical art in this country, and,
perhaps it is not to much to say, in
the world. Few men have given so
much time to the work of prepera-
tion for the platform. By long study,
by instruction from the ablest teach
ers, and by constant practice he has
reached such perfection that art
hides his art, and he seems perfectly
natural in his gesticulatiOn, postures,
infections, emphases and pauses.
The first half of the lecture was
occupied with the definition of the
orator, the qualities of mind and |
heart that are needed to make him
successful, and a discussion of the |
true merits of ancient and modern |
OratOry. He thought that there
have been but few really perfect
speakers, three or four only in Eng
land and not more than six or eight
in this country.
Mr.. Dougherty then told a num-
Der of very amusing incidents illus
5rative of his subject, fairly convuls-
ng his audience with laughter, one
being the imitation of a lawyers
speech on the occasion of the death
If a professional friend, and others
to his own early efforts
md struggles to acquire oratorical
anne. In these he showed that he !
possessed dramatic talent of a very
Ugh order. For certainly he "held !
he mirror up to nature" so that we
ould see the latter well.
In closing Mr.. Dougherty express
ed the opinion that the occupation
f the orator was gone or was going, +
is place having been seized on by t
he newspaper press. We are very Q
nre we shall not believe it so long :
5 charming speakers as him I
Elf remains. No onel yho listened I
} him but would mourn the decay
f an art which ranks with music,
ainting and sculpture. and should b
e fostered as they are. =
We hope that at no distant day 3
e may again have the pleasure of +,
stening to this delightful and in a
resting lecturer. Many who have n
card him on the subject ofthe Stage ei
link that in popular qualities it even
lrpasses the one he gave us last
eek, and we doubt not that if he n
ere to come again he would have Ia
/ audience much larger than that y
hich greeted him on his first ap- !;
sarence in our town. a,
NUAL REPORT OF STATE TREASURER to
HOUsT0N. OIL