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    Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College
    Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College
    Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College
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    Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College

    By Henry M. (Henry Miller) Pierce

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College - Henry M. (Henry Miller) Pierce

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      Title: Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College

      Author: Henry M. Pierce

      Release Date: December 30, 2010 [EBook #34793]

      Language: English

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      ADDRESS

      TO THE

      FIRST GRADUATING CLASS

      OF

      Rutgers Female College;

      DELIVERED IN

      THE FOURTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,

      (REV. DR. CROSBY'S),

      ON

      SABBATH EVENING, JUNE 2D, 1867.

      BY

      HENRY M. PIERCE, LL.D.,

      PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE.

      PUBLISHED BY REQUEST OF THE TRUSTEES.

      New York:

      AGATHYNIAN PRESS.

      1867

      President's Address.

      In the year 1839, with great labor, care, expense, and after long consultation, was the Rutgers Female Institute founded. It grew out of an increasing sense of the importance of the duties of women, and of the need that her work should be well done. Hence the establishment of the school, with its course of studies, its libraries, its apparatus, its teachers. A quarter of a century has witnessed a great change in the education of woman; and the position of Rutgers Institute to-day, as a College, marks the character and degree of that change.

      It has been my custom, to make a personal address to the members of each graduating class, as they have gone forth from the quiet of the school to the busy walks of life. My heart now impels me to follow this usage, but the change that has taken place in this institution, during the past year, seems to make appropriate to the present occasion, a few preliminary statements of my views as to what is the true position of woman, and what should be her education.

      These are questions that deeply agitate the public mind. They are, in fact, the leading questions of the day; but in regard to them, I shall not shrink from the utterance of my opinions. Underlying the question of the education of

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