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    44 AMEKICAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN,

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    Turning Some Months All Its' En Ago Erg ...

    aspiring to something higher ? he left his parents to seek employthe he ment finall Huds for y a on set time and off with , with took a tanner his a humble six ; finding shillings situation this worth little in of more a fortune country satisfactory , crossed store . ,

    Here he earned , and he savedand- when in the course of a few years ruined , , the Matthew Brewery came was to burned in his , such hel down p , undertook and his father the enable business almost d him _

    himself eventuall To what , y and to should amass carried this from it wealth on its proceeds be devoted a a manner mi was ght now y as fortune the question .

    Mr and . Vassar the sam had e sp shewn irit , at in once acquiring enterprising it , was and disp judicious layed _^ in which his , in his

    address decision to as the to Trustees how it should of Vassar be spent College . His , will own best words explain , his

    purpose , and why he adopted it . " _property It having it pleased has long God been that I should desire have after no suitabl direct providing descendants for to those inherit of

    my , my , y my _a . s should kindred best who honour have claims God and on benefit ine , to make my fellow such men a disposition . At different of my periods means I have regarded various plans with favor ; but and these endowin have all been dismissed for the

    one after anotheruntil the subject of erecting g a college grandeur education , and of young beni , gnity women of the was idea presented arrested for my my attention consideration . The . more The c novelty arefully , it commended itself to and

    I examined itthe more strongly my judgment her interested Creator my the feelings , same intellectual . It occurred constitution to me , that as woman man , has having the received same riht from as g

    • man shape of a country to its intellectual destiny mould . the Next culture ch to aracter and the development influence of its citiz of ens . the , I determin mother at considered , , e is its that when that institutions of the the mothers female , and

    teacher , who is employed to train young children a period impressions - properl are most y educated vivid and , some lasting new . avenues It also to seemed useful and to me honorable , that if emp woman loyment were , in and of her ht be

    to entire her . harmony It further with appeared the gentleness , there is not modesty in our country sex —there , mig is not opened in the worldso far as is known—a single fully endowed institution for the education

    of the of women education great , , . felt It for , pressing was the also sex want in has evidence been has been constantl , that amp for le y the rising endowments last in thirty the , United to years secure , the States of to standard female ; best and

    seminaries the elevated character , the stability and permanency our _colleges . " This " great and pressing want" thenMr . Vassar determined

    to as supp Vassar ly , and Female the result College is . , the A farm noble , of institution two old hundred Dutch now known acres of ,

    chosen Poug situate hkeepsie for about a site , a on coup the the foundation le left of bank miles of of from the the Colleg the Hudson e edifice , having was city been laid

    and and on the three the 4 th following stories of June , hig , descri h 1861 ; the . p material tion The building of , the brick p is lan with in was the stone Norman given trimmings , a sty few le ; ,

    months back , in an account of the College , written by Mr . M .

    44 Amekican University For Women,

    44 AMEKICAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/44/