Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers
In this address to the first graduating class of Rutgers Female College, Henry Miller Pierce, the college's first president, reflects on the importance of education for women and the progress that has been made in the field of higher education for women. He encourages the graduates to use their education to make a positive impact on society and to strive for excellence in all that they do. He also emphasizes the importance of maintaining a strong moral character and of being a good example to others. He concludes by wishing the graduates success in their future endeavors.
By Henry Miller Pierce · First published 1867 · Genre: Speech, Non-Fiction, Historical · 7,149 words
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In the year 1839, with great labor, care, expense, and after long consultation, was the Rutgers Female Institute founded. It grew out of an increasing sense of the importance of the duties of women, and of the need that her work should be well done. Hence the establishment of the school, with its course of studies, its libraries, its apparatus, its teachers. A quarter of a century has witnessed a great change in the education of woman; and the position of Rutgers Institute to-day, as a College, marks the character and degree of that change.
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- Work type: Speech
- Author: Henry Miller Pierce
- Date: 1867 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Speech, Non-Fiction, Historical, Educational
- Length: 7,149 words
- Structure: 1 section, 70 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Difficult (College Level)
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- Speech — The title of the book implies that it is a speech given to the first graduating class of Rutgers Female College.
- Non-Fiction — The book is likely to be non-fiction, as it is an address given to a graduating class.
- Historical — The book is likely to be historical, as it is an address given to a graduating class from the past.
- Educational — The book is likely to be educational, as it is an address given to a graduating class.
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