American Annals of Education and Instruction, and Journal of Literary Institutions Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...a student in this seminary, giving a short history of the establishment, the number of students educated in it, their present employments and prospects, and the benefits, to the country at large, of this institution.' The institution now contains one hundred and fifty pupils; and a recent decision of the Board will authorise the officers to receive three hundred hereafter on the foundation. It is under the direction of the Rev. Daniel Poor, as principal, Gahriel Tissera a native, and an accomplished English scholar, as tutors; nine native assistants; the Rev. J. R. Eckard, a teacher of natural science; and two gentlemen attached to the mission, as instructors in medicine and theology. Such is the little colony of science which American enterprise and benevolence have established on the shores of Ceylon, as a source of illumination to the eight or ten millions of Hindoos, who use the Tamul language, and whose influence may extend to the remote regions of India, carrying with it the knowledge of Christian truth. Who that values science, or that loves Christianity, will not bid it ' God Speed ' From the Ladiei' M-jaiine.- FEMALE EDUCATION. EXTRACT FROM A LETTER TO THE EDITOR. ' Mrs Hale, --I noticed with peculiar pleasure, in your October Number, an appeal to the philanthropic of the other sex, for equal facilities in the acquisition of knowledge. There is no subject on which 1 feel so deep an interest as that of female education, in all We shall endeavor to give in (his number some of the examples of articles on education, found in other periodicals, which were excluded from our last 800 Value of Education to a Mother. July, its bearings; and when I see a writer express herself with such a noble fearlessness in so good a cause, she, has the...