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FIRST THIRTY YEARS OF SCHOOLS, &C. = 317 
the Presbyterian schools the sexes are generally mixed, and often, 
though at other times placed on opposite sides of the room, they say 
their lessons together. In the Wesleyan schools both plans are adopted, 
and to nearly an equal extent; yet it is a leading characteristic of Stow’s 
system, which is professedly pursued, to make no separation of the 
sexes in school. In the schvols of the London Missionaries the separate 
system predominates, but I have not learned that its adoption is owing 
to experience of the evil effects of the contrary system; and in those 
schools where the sexes are mixed, I have been assured that no impro- 
priety has ever been known to result. In faét, in only one or two 
instances in the Colony have I been able to learn that the separate 
system has been preferred in consequence of the observation of evil 
resulting from the opposite course. 
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