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Show Being Coached on the News of the Day. An educational feature of comparatively compara-tively recent establishment in private schools and seminaries for young ladies is one which might be put down in the curriculum of studies as that of current opinion. For tho past two or three years a number of the New York schools and several prominent ones throughout tho state have instituted weekly lectures upon topics of the times. For this purpose pur-pose in some schools visiting talent is employed; in others a member of the teaching corps is detailed for tho work. The things talked about by the world at large at the moment are taken as sub- ' jects, and tho addresses are vehicles for j tho transmission of much valuable in- j formation which the young women ' would probably not obtain for them- ! stives young women being the class j par excellence, and almost tho only class, I which doe3 not read the newspapers. These lectures are intended for tho advanced ad-vanced classes, and are, though not so : stated, indirectly directed to the removal of tho bread and butter taint from the coming society dobntante, it being no longer considered good form for even a young woman and a belle to be wholly ignorant of tho important questions of the day. New York Times. |