Shut up with girls, most of them older than myself, I heard many subjects discussed of which I had never thought before, and in a manner it were better I had never heard.

The healthful restraint always existing between boys and girls in conversation is apt to be relaxed with either sex alone.

In all my intimate association with boys up to that period, I cannot recall one word or act for criticism, but I cannot say the same of the girls during the three years I passed at the seminary in Troy.

My own experience proves to me that it is a grave mistake to send boys and girls to separate institutions of learning, especially at the most impressible age.

The stimulus of sex promotes alike a healthy condition of the intellectual and the moral faculties and gives to both a development they never can acquire alone.
Mrs.Willard, having spent several months in Europe, did not return until I had been at the seminary some time.