404 Mount Auburn Young Ladies^ Institute [September, 



MOUNT AUBURN YOUNG LADIES' INSTITUTE. 



We present our readers, in this number, with a spirited lithographic 

 sketch of the new building erected on Mount Auburn for the Young 

 Ladies' Institute in that place, and which commands one of the 

 most strikingly beautiful views in the neighborhood. Although wc 

 naturally feel a deeper interest for our own excellent Female College 

 in this vicinity, we nevertheless, as friends of education in general, 

 can not but regard with kindly sympathy all well aimed efforts at 

 increased facilities and improvements. The education of the people 

 on the most thorough and enlightened principles, and no less of the 

 female than of the male portion of that important aggregate of all 

 that may endanger, or secure, our national stability, can never be a 

 topic of indifference to a patriotic mind. "We believe the proprietors 

 of the Mount Auburn Young Ladies' Institute are doing the public 

 good service by thus providing a seminary which, we are assured, it 

 is their intention to make as perfect, of its kind, as the means attain- 

 able in this country will permit. 



The scope of their design and the abundant funds which, from 

 their unhesitating expenditures, appear to be within their reach, are 

 tending towards a style of public education that has not, we believe, 

 unless in a very limited degree, been before attempted in the West. 

 For it will, as we judge, be not incorrect to designate this seminary 

 as a select school. The pupils it appears will be limited in number 

 much below the standard of our largest public seminaries; will not 

 be crowded in the sleeping apartments ; and will be provided with 

 the best teachers to be found in the country — the system of cheap 

 teaching being utterly repudiated will aim at no showy progress 

 inconsistent with perfect thoroughness in fundamentals — while the 

 livin T and domestic arrangements in general are designed to be such 

 as shall entirely satisfy the wishes of the most solicitous parent. To 

 accomplish this without loss to themselves the proprietors have set 

 their terms higher than usual in this part of the country — but to 

 those who prize the advantage of a select school and desire to pay 

 for it, $300 for board and the usual English classical and scientific 

 branches is by no means exorbitant. If the plan proposed be ful- 

 filled, and the character of those interested is a sufficient pledge that 

 it will be fulfilled faithfullv, we do not doubt that within the limit 

 the Mount Auburn Seminary needs for its support there will be 

 found sufficient patronage for a school of this class, and we heartily 



