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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER IX
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I should be sorry not to see S., and W., and P., and E., and G., and K.on the list of the ten, but probably that is more than I ought to expect.

The whole system is demoralizing and foolish.

Girls study for prizes, and not for learning, when 'honors' are at the end.

The unscholarly motive is wearing.

If they studied for sound learning, the cheer which would come with every day's gain would be health-preserving.
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