The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-05-03
The VAOSAR GIRL.
..g,,MPING IS AT A DISCOUNT.
,,ore Reigns--Rev. j. W. Lees
Educatio" etc Girl About Whom So
VIEW ,'nch Has Been Said and Writ
tep--some Colleges Crit
icised.

the Atlanta Constitution
fIV rbo vassar girl" has caught the at
.,,,ion of Rev. J. W. Lee.
''T Nv Lee has returned from Poughkeep-
t,n Of his subject and armed for wal
SIC ! la .oiano-thumper'' which some col
2 lsgss palm off as education
l'S TSase newly acquired views, gained
i the inspection of famous institu-
I . will command attention. Writing
w. +,o Constitution, DR.. Lee says;
u, a VI vassar girl is destined to remain
orarIasting figure in American histo
a. Che stands at the close of one epoch
~ "a ~ the beginning of another. She
aI lI.nrs TO the closing quarter OF the
O ...eorth century. The winds of the
uln as blew high and low, and the condi-
49,, nb;cb made ''the Vassar glrl'' pos
ibla steadily prevailed. At last, public
ainion was ripe, the clock of woman's
5av struck twelve, and the Vassar girl
,as come 10 show that the women are
nseful for other things than
nTo eat strawberries and cream,
e. IN cushion and sew up seam.
Tn 1912, Margaret Fuller said that the
demand of woman is not poet license;
wary woman can receive that from her
Ioror, It is not lifelong sway, every
woman. by becoming coquette, ashrew,
ar = Good cook, can secure that. 1t is
not money, nor notoriety, nor badges OF
authority. These may sometimes be
souub+ by women but they are not the
demand of woman. Her demand is for
that which is the birthright of every be-
inc capable to receive it; the freedom,
tbe religious, the intelligent freedom or
tbeuniyerse. to use it's means to learn
its secrets as far as nature hast enabled
her with God alone for her guide and her
Judge
"This, that Margaret Fuller represent
ed as the demand of woman in 1912, Mat
thew Vassar, of Poughkeepsie, made
possible in 1862. For while many schools
and colleges had been opened for women
before this, Vassar college was the first
amply endowed and thoroughly equipped
college for women in the world. The
first college ever chartered by state
legislature for women was the Wesleyan
college at Macon, Ga. This and other
schools for women prepared the way for
YasSar
Matthew Vassar, wealthy citizen Of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, was coming to the
close of a long and successful career.
The disposition that should be made of
his property at his death was question
that concerned him much. So he said,
1t occurred to me that woman, having
received from her brother the same intel
lectual constitution as man, has the same
right to intellectual culture and deyel-
opment.
1T is my hope he continued, ito be
the instrument in the hand of Providence
Offounding an institution which shall
accomplish for young women what our
colleges are accomplishing for young
men.
For the establishment of such an in
Stitution Matthew Vassar and his two
aephews gave 81, 362, 900. To this large
sum other gifts have been added, until
tmay be said without hesitation that
(assar college is to-day the most amply
equipped college for women on the face
otthe earth. The college grnonds COM
Prise 10 acres. The college buildings
include the main building, containing
the Offices, class rooms, chapel, parlors,
dining room, rooms for students and
@ncers: Thompson library attached to
Tie main building, observatory, laborato-
y OF physics and chemistry; museum
containing the collections of natural his
oIy, art galleries, music rooms, min
',"o5Icdl ana biological laboratories,
me alumnae gymnasium, the new hall,
"a9e' residences for professors, con-
sVf'atory, boiler house and farm house.
All things taught in the college are
'omprSed under the heads of Latin, San
@IIt' Greek, French, German, English,
mathematics, astronomy, physics, chem
&0yt minerology, geology, biology,
PHYSIOLOGY, philosophy, history, econom-
les, art, music.
10 say these various things are taught
y" asSar will convey to the mind of the
,''uer no adequate idea of the marvellous
S'Oy'Sion that has been made to give the
r,luent complete knowledge of them.
aI Ae' tor instance, the departments of
physics and chamistrv rVbaso oocuDxv a