" Having visited Mount
Holyoke Seminary, he often said, "Of all colleges in America, Mount
Holy Oke be the best; and when I see such a school here, I die;"
meaning that then he would be ready to die. When he brought her
first boarding scholars to Miss Fiske, he said, "Now you begin Mount
Holy Oke in Persia."
As she sought to reproduce one of our female seminaries, as far as
was possible in such different circumstances, it seems fitting to
enter somewhat into the minutiae of its arrangements.
Resemblance to similar institutions at home is not as yet to be
sought in the standard of scholarship, though that is rapidly
advancing. In an unevangelized community, the people move on a lower
level. Not only social condition, but morality and education, feel
the want of the elevating influence of the gospel. A seminary that
commences operations by teaching the alphabet must advance far, and
climb high, before its graduates will stand on a level with those
whose pupils were familiar with elementary algebra when they
entered; yet its course of study may be the best to secure the
usefulness of its members in their own community.
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