. The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route . THE T0UE1STS GUIDE. 57 mies, military and public schools, are among the best and mostprosperous in the land. The very atmosphere is impregnated withthe aroma of culture. Thousands of men and women scatteredthroughout our land, have hung the choicest rooms in the humantemple with memory pictures selected from happily spent schoolhours in this beautiful city. Prominent among these, we mention Vassar College, for theeducation of young women, the first insti
. The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route . THE T0UE1STS GUIDE. 57 mies, military and public schools, are among the best and mostprosperous in the land. The very atmosphere is impregnated withthe aroma of culture. Thousands of men and women scatteredthroughout our land, have hung the choicest rooms in the humantemple with memory pictures selected from happily spent schoolhours in this beautiful city. Prominent among these, we mention Vassar College, for theeducation of young women, the first institution of the kind everattempted. This magnificent structure was founded by the lateMatthew Vassar, at an expense of nearly a million of dollars, andconstructed after the model of the Tuileries at Paris. It is finely situated, amid agreeable scenery, in a high and health-ful situation. All its appointments are on the most liberal has a laboratory, a museum, a library, an observatory, and allthe other usual adjuncts of a well-endowed seat of learning; andhas, besides, a gallery of art, containing a fine collection of water-colo
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