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benefits of those three years I have been reaping ever since, I
trust not altogether selfishly. It was always my desire and my
ambition as a teacher, to help my pupils as my teachers had
helped me.
The course of study at Monticello Seminary was the broadest, the
most college-like, that I have ever known; and I have had
experience since in several institutions of the kind. The study
of mediaeval and modern history, and of the history of modern
philosophy, especially, opened new vistas to me. In these our
Principal was also our teacher, and her method was to show us the
tendencies of thought, to put our minds into the great current of
human affairs, leaving us to collect details as we could, then or
afterward. We came thus to feel that these were life-long
studies, as indeed they are.
The course was somewhat elective, but her advice to me was, not
to omit anything because I did not like it. I had a natural
distaste for mathematics, and my recollections of my struggles
with trigonometry and conic sections are not altogether those of
a conquering heroine.
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