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required to qualify a young women to instruct a district school. Third: the same, with political class, book rhetoric, natural philosophy and astronomy, geology, chemistry, botany, philosophy of natural history, algebra and geometry. Fourth: logic, moral and intellectual philosophy, natural theology and evidences of
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stated that the school would continue under the case of those teachers who were associated with Fiske. Eliza P. (Withington) Hastings, became the principal, while
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