Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . merican Board of Commissionersfor Foreign Missions. Other potent educational agencies were the many academieswhich early dotted the county, and which were the resort of pupils fromNew York and Boston, indeed, from all over the land, making Berk-shire the seat of a great share of the influence which has made Massa-chusetts the center of literary and educational acti\ity and helpfulnessfor the land. To quote Mr. Palmer: Every one of theseschools was no mere jjlace for giving the fash
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . merican Board of Commissionersfor Foreign Missions. Other potent educational agencies were the many academieswhich early dotted the county, and which were the resort of pupils fromNew York and Boston, indeed, from all over the land, making Berk-shire the seat of a great share of the influence which has made Massa-chusetts the center of literary and educational acti\ity and helpfulnessfor the land. To quote Mr. Palmer: Every one of theseschools was no mere jjlace for giving the fashionable veneering of theordinary boarding school, but rather the severe round of training inthe Spartan virtues of hard, severe, honest, legitimate toil, and earningQXQvy step of acKance achieved. And from these schools, as well asfrom the mountain farms and hillside slopes (:;f the Housatonic, therehas flowed a constant stream of manlv vigor which has served to re-plenish the wear and waste and strain of manv a town and city in everyportion of the land. Nor must be overlooked, as a potent educational. Haystack Momiineiit. .if BERKSHIRE COUNTY 37 agency, the libraries which were early established in various latter contained no flashy novels, but were filled with standardworks of history, biography, travels and poetry, and social circles wereformed for reading these works. Mr. Hyde, previously quoted, saysthat young ladies, as they spun wool and flax, would have ParadiseLost or Youngs Night Thoughts or some other book beforethem, and read as they spun. Many young women committed to mem-ory entire poems, and were well versed in Rollins Ancient History and Plutarchs Lives. and (remarks Mr. Hyde) it has been claimedby some, who had an eye on the first half century of Berkshire as wellas the last half, that the matrons of the first period were more con-versant with standard English authors than are their daughters andgrand-daughters. Pertinent tO the same topic is the foll
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