Though I was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the languages, yet, in our plays, all the girls and boys mingled freely together.

In running races, sliding downhill, and snowballing, we made no distinction of sex.

True, the boys would carry the school books and pull the sleighs up hill for their favorite girls, but equality was the general basis of our school relations.

I dare say the boys did not make their snowballs quite so hard when pelting the girls, nor wash their faces with the same vehemence as they did each other's, but there was no public evidence of partiality.

However, if any boy was too rough or took advantage of a girl smaller than himself, he was promptly thrashed by his fellows.
There was an unwritten law and public sentiment in that little Academy world that enabled us to study and play together with the greatest freedom and harmony.
From the academy the boys of my class went to Union College at Schenectady.