THE
EDUCATION
OF
AMERICAN GIRLS‘
CONSIDERED IN A SERIES OF
ESSAYS, EDITED BY
ANNA О. <...> D. О.
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TO THE
SCHOOL-GIRLS AND COLLEGE-GIRLS
or
AMERICA, BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT THEIR IDEALS ARE HIGH AND THAT
THEY HAVE STRENGTH ТО MAKE ТЕК}! <...> The author of Essay IV. has had an unusually
long and varied experience in the education and care of
Western girls, in schools and colleges. <...> Of these, ‘VII. is by a member
of the present Senior Class of the University, who has instituted very exact personal inquiries among the womenstudents. <...> The author of VIII. is the librarian of Mt.
Holyoke Seminary. <...> Oberlin is agraduate—a teacher of Wide experience, and
has been for three or four years the Principal of the
Ladies’ Department of the college. <...> The resident physi. cian at Vassar is too well known as such, to need any
introduction. <...> There are many other institutions whose statistics
would be equally valuable, such, for instance, as the
Northwestern University of Illinbis, which has not only
opened its doors to girl—students, but has placed women
on the Board of Trustees, and in the Faculty. <...> From Antioch, which we desired to have fully repre
sented, we have been disappointed in obtaining statistics, which may, however, hereafter be embodied in а second
edition. <...> In place thereof, We give the brief statement
of facts foundvunder the name of the institution, supplied
by a friend. <...> With reference to my own part of the volume, if the
words on‘ “Physical Education†far outnumber those
on the “ Culture of the Intellect,†and the “ Culture of
the Will,†it can only be said that the American nation
are far more liable to overlook the former than the latter
two, and that the number of pages covered is by no
means to be taken as an index of the relative importance
of the divisions in themselves. <...> Of the imperfection of
all three, no one can be more conscious than their author. <...> The subject is too large for any such 'partia.l treat.шваб. _ V
To friends, medical, clerical, and unprofessional, who
PREFACE. 7
have kindly given me the beneï¬t of their criticism on
diiferent parts of the introductory essay, my thanks are
due. <...> Especially do I recognize my obligation to Dr. W.
Gill Wylie, of this city, whose line of study <...>