W. S. Plummer Address 1858

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A newspaper clipping of Dr. W. S. Plummer's address "On the Education of Youth". Dr. Plummer believed: "Nothing has retarded the civilization of the race so much as limited and deficient female education," but he also believed "young ladies learn early that a woman's strength is, first, her spotless chasity." Dr. Plummer advocated that women should be taught to spell before anything else and not to read too many novels as young ladies begin to identify with the heroine. #155

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