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The Letter - 2005-02-28 00:23:13
[written to Charles Woodruff, the apparently strikingly mustachioed editor of the Ypsilanti Sentinel]:
My Dear Mr. Editor:
I looked for your Mexican Mustache at the literary examination in the Ypsilanti Seminary last week; but as I looked in vain, I will trouble you with some little account of the affair.
It would have done your bachelor heart good and warmed up your frozen soul, to have witnessed the promptitude and acuteness of the female classes in Latin, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Astronomy. Men of your monkish spirit are wont to think the female mind adapted only to the more frivolous studies. But none could witness the exercises of Friday without a thorough conviction that the sex are fully equal to their coarser masters in all the higher and harder matters of literary pursuit. The compositions exhibited a taste and polish to which the male mind must certainly yield the palm. In all the exercises, more especially those of "The Portfolio," I missed the old set of pupils; though I was happy to recognize one of our favorites in "The Reformation."
The young gentlemen did themselves credit. There is a strong English class, but the students in the Lanugages are younger and less advanced than heretofore. The older set have gone to the University and are there bearing testimony to the ability and faithfulness of the Seminary Principal.
I know not how others find themselves affected by these periodical examinations. I can only speak for myself and say it makes me proud of our Village, and grateful to the enterprising proprietors of the Seminary; who have given so much character to our Borough, and so much accomodation to parents, and to the young aspirants for knowledge. But you and I are in a hurry just now--More of this matter hereafter.
--PHILOM
[Reply from editor Woodruff]:
We are not in the habit of allowing such liberties to be taken with our "Mustaches," "Bachelor heart," "frozen soul," "Monkish spirit," &c., but the evident good nature of the writer prompts us to pardon him this time. We plead guilty to the mustache only,--the other charges remain to be proven.
--Ypsilanti Sentinel, Feb. 3, 1847.
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