Excerpt from The Golden Age of Vassar The burning inspiration consequent to Mr. Vassar's foundation fell upon the mothers, while they profoundly influ enced their daughters. Many a very young girl, and not a few girls much their seniors, caught the glow, became imbued with a dynamic conviction and began to prepare two or three years in advance of the opening of Vassar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.