Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-10
STUDY AT HOME.
A Unique, Helpful and Attractive School
 In Boston.

Especial Correspondence.l
 BOSTON, July 2.-Of the many schools in Boston, ono of the most helpful is tho Society For Study at Homc in which student c&n go fast or slow, work much or little, Int work she must, and when OnCe the habit of close, systematic study is formed the school becomes a part of her daily life, she continuing in it for years often 10, 15 and in one case IS years-yet all the while at home doing the daily task.
 This school-or perhaps it would now more properly be called a university exten- sion cOursC-was founded somo g years ago by Miss Annie K. Ticknor, daughter of George TicknOr, the historian, who was for many years our consul to Spain. Miss Ticknor has not only had the advantage of education and foreign travel, but also the friendship of many distinguished men and women, both at homo and abrOad-Long- fellow. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dickens, Thackcray, Agassiz; the list is long and illustrious.
 Her philanthropic desire to give as gen erously as shc had received resulted in the Society For Study at Home, which now averages yearly nearly 900 students from every state of the Union, Canada, the Sandwich Islands, and one from faroH Japan; with working staff of teachers or correspondents of nearly 900, who carry on his work gratuitously by correspondence.
 A library of choice books numbering nearly 5000 now circulates all over the country as well as boxes of mineral speci- mems and art photographs for the teaching of drawing, otc.
 This school makes a keen distinction be- tween reading and study. This is a study at home, where the beginner is allowed to take up but one study at a time. She is not hurried from one period of history to another so fast to gain only faint out line and then danced on in one year through literature ethics, astronomy, philosophy and evidences of Christianity. Is it any wonder that girls once learning to study koep on for 20 years, going from | history to English literature, taking up as special study tho plays of Shakespeare? And now to the list there has been added Q course in foreign travel. Imaginary jour neys they are called, with choice photo graphs of the works of old masters cathe- | drals, mountains in Switzerland and scenes in sunny Italy. To many an invalid | confined to one room these imaginary | journeys have been excursions of delight. One poor sowing girl, living in a small New England town, has in this way tray eled all over Europe. Another has become l an authority on ferns, and her knowledge | of botany Is now the means of adding much to the material comfort of her home.
 Each new student is provided with the i best tracts on health. Everything is done to promote character rather than learning
 a list of dates and a study of dry facts. | Ono student writes, You do not know
 how I have longcd for such a chance as
 this." Another, "HOw many kinds of | hunger there arc!''
 During the existence of the society 6, 534 women have entered their names as stu l dents. Add to this the work women are
 doing in other schools, courses of reading,
 clubs, etc., and WIG find at least one factor
 in the rapid progress of our bright women. | ELIZA STOWE TwITCHELL.