The Education of American GirlsBrackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
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The Education of American Girls
Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
Women -- Education -- United States
In the present graduating class, there are eight women who have been,
at all times during the college course, as well as an equal number of
their classmates, or the same number of women in any pursuit in life.
One of these, who is not only the 'picture of health,' but who is
perfectly healthy, was only sixteen years of age when she entered. Two
other young women, who have ranked with the first of their class in
scholarship, and who have been in excellent health during the entire
course, with the exception of slight illnesses in their freshman
year--not caused by study--who are now among the most healthy of their
class, have, in addition to their college work, nearly defrayed their
expenses by teaching during the vacations, by giving private instruction
after study hours, and by working in various other ways. They have not,
in this fourth year of almost double duty, any lurking disease which
threatens to impair or to destroy their usefulness in the future, and
they are as strong, ambitious, and happy as when they entered.
One who entered the class in its sophomore year, and who intended to
graduate with it, was obliged to withdraw on account of her health; but
those who know her best cannot assert that this was caused, either
directly or indirectly, by her intellectual labors, or that, under the
same conditions, the same results would not have followed from any kind
of work. She was, and had been for a long time before entering, in a
very bad state of health, and was utterly unfit for study.
Thus far, the health record of the women of this class has compared
favorably with that of the men, and there is, at the present time, no
physiological reason why it should not thus continue even 'down to old
age.'
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