Inland Massachusetts illustrated A concise résumé of the natural features and past history of the counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, their towns, villages, and cities, together with a condensed summary of their industrial advantages and development, and a comprehensive series of sketches descriptive of representative business houses To which is prefixed a short chapter on the Commonwealth at large . , but to perfect her intellect by thebest methods which philosophy and experience suggest, so that she maybe better qualified to enjoy and to do well her work in life, whateve
Inland Massachusetts illustrated A concise résumé of the natural features and past history of the counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, their towns, villages, and cities, together with a condensed summary of their industrial advantages and development, and a comprehensive series of sketches descriptive of representative business houses To which is prefixed a short chapter on the Commonwealth at large . , but to perfect her intellect by thebest methods which philosophy and experience suggest, so that she maybe better qualified to enjoy and to do well her work in life, whatever thatwork may be. It is a womans college, aiming not only to give the broad-est and highest intellectual culture, but also to preserve and perfect everycharacteristic of a complete womanhood. It is a Christian college, con-ducted in the belief that Christian faith is the true source of the highestculture, and that, in the words of the founder. All education should befor the glory of God. The Mary A. Hurnham Classical School for Girls is preparatory incharacter, the curriculum embracing Latin. French, (ierman. Knglish his-tory and literature, ancient and modern history, geometry, the elementsof natural science, logic, and rhetoric, to which students may elect to addfurther studies of modern languages, analytical chemistry, mineralogy,geology, astronomy, physics, botany, history, literature, and ART , SMrni COLLKOE. INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. 171 The Chirke Institute for Deaf Mutes was endowed b} John Clarke, anoted Northampton citizen, who set aside $50,000 for the purpose. Theinstitution was chartered in 1867. Miss Harriet B. Rogers, the pioneerteacher of articulation to deaf mutes in America, was made principal, andfor several years the school was located in the old Dudley collegiate in-stitute, now the Shady Lawn Sanitarium. The present buildings werefinally erected at a cost of $100,000, and occupied, Miss Rogers remainingat the head of
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