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BURLINGTON UNIVERSITY.We are much please! to learn that at a ro tt-ir.g of the Board of Trustees of this Instftu-■ tion held a few days since, it was determined soscon a; possible to p oc ire competent teachers 5 and if practicable to open a preparatory school with both male an I t' mile Department* car-,ly lb is fall, and, until the new Ln.ll.ng, r.oa in | process of erect.on, should be in a state of read-* me**, to occupy ronuis in the bases *ms ot theBapti-t and Congregational churches.I At this meet ng also, M «. Darwin, so well known in this community as the teacher of a flourishing young ladws Seminary in onr city, was eke d principal of the femaie department, which eh tion h is been subsequently accepted. Tais w f regard as a most happy arrangement, as it secures to the contemplated j University, one of tbe b • *t female educators we have known either in the cast or west, and at the same tune furnishes Mrs. Durwiu withadvantages of buildings library, appiratus, Aic. which it might have been difficult to s. c ire for the Seminary in an independent s' ite. T.i.s arrangement, we are moreover informed, is notto atTect in the least her prescot school, which is to open its next session some time next month, and to continue on as usual, until the male department is also provided with a suitable princ pal. Then the full school will be opened and Mr*. D irw» *s Semin r. w ill pa*s under the direction of the Boardof Trustees of BurlingtonUniversity, and become the Fem ile Department of this new lustit ition. But even then, no mi-terial change will be made in this Department as the direct government will be still in the hand* *of Mrs. Darwin, anJ the course of stud) thesame it has been.We also understand that the Exec rtive otfi-cersof the Bond are .u ro:rt-;»o iencew.th a gentleman of high rep it ■ on an ! e\p -’u :;«*«• whom tbev have strong l op * »f early securi g as profc*or ao 1 { inc.pal of the Mai ■ Department of the College. Success to the enterprise. It i* ev dent from ‘he *» ; s •; w taken that it is th.- d «'-• -f the •«. dr.»!.. l.tera!in its policy, an I to f irn.sh for tin * who «;.ail favor it w*lh the»r { «.M . t. •* L.gh«-t ad-vant. gr th.r can b«* *cc’ired m an} wr-'ern Institution of Learn.ug. Let no -tf'.iriin orOther p.»-| d.C then b vlt; !'o h tide.' gooda work,but let all unite »o hasten the perm merit a and successful eK.iblid.m*nt of the Burl.ng onI’riiversity.
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Burlington Weekly Telegraph
Burlington, Iowa, US
Sat, Aug 13, 1853
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