The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-06
Elizabeth Aull Seminary
Closing Exercises of a Famous
Institution of Learning
PRESIDENT w. IL. MORTON.
Comments of Various Kinds on AL
Institution That is Doing a
Good Work.
BY WAY OF BEGINNING.

In many respects the female educa
tional institutions of other states do mol
favorably compare with the great col
leges maintained for the education oI
young men, but in Missouri this car
not be claimed, for right here III this
historic city are three female semina-
ries that equal in their appointments
any of the male academies, n there
are several of the latter which take
rank with the best in the land. Ii Is
true that orr seminaries are sectarian
IN their organization, but be it remem-
bered thai from Christianity woman
has derived her moral and social infiur
ence. The mInd of woman which the
Legislators aud sages of antiquity had
doomed to eternal inferioriIy and i'm
becility, has been developed and her
plundered rights restored by Chris
tIanity and education. Her previous
degradation accounts, IN part at least,
for the instability of early civilization.
The debasement of III past
centuries retarded the elevation of the
human race and made possible the
feudal age, when light had all but
faded from the human mind. The
condition OF woman, in any age, is a
true index Of the condition of society,
and the progress of universal civilIza-
ton has only kept pace with the pro-
gress of female education. We can.
then, scarcely estimate too highly the
advantages that would result to u
own fair land from "A more general
system of female education. In many
communities in this country the soul
DESTROYING, romantic ideas of the days
of knIghI-errantry have not as yet
been wholly eradicated. To a certain
degree the chivalrous notion still OBJ
tains that men need knowledge aud
women accomplishments, only, for sue
cess in life. But, happily for the good
of all, this fallaciOus reasoning is fast
disappearing, and parents now realize
more than ever that it is quite as nee
essary to give their daughters the
benefit of a thorough education as it Is
to send their sons TO the great colleges
where they may graduate with honors
which they retain through life. The
human mind expands only by patient
thought. This cannot be secured by
mere accomplishments. But in the
popular female seminaries of this city
lOt IA NhC phb SNOAl I'M
poriant branch of study is open to
students. A well-cultlvated, well-stored
mind is an inestImable treasure In any
station of life, and the young ladies
who have graduated here have gone
forth into the world possessing every
necessary accomplishment and thor
oughly learned ia all the various and
branches of knowledge. No
seminary anywhere is superior
in any particular to Elizabeth Aull. 1t
is widely known and of as much value to
the state as any institution of the kind
of which we can boast. 1t requires no
because the grand and noble
work it has accomplished in the long
years of its glorious existence is as well
and as widely heralded as
are the achievements of any other edu-
institution in the west. 1t
able and popular educators,
its curriculum is well approved, and it
front rank with the best educa-
Ional institutions of the country.