According to the Echo , a young lady was once heard to excuse her objection to severe application to study on the ground that it might make her head become too large for beauty. It seems that the State Superintendent of the Minnesota schools entertains a similar opinion of the incompatibility between personal charms and a high degree of mental culture. He lately received a letter asking his help in securing a schoolmistress able to teach Latin and Greek and take charge of a hundred pupils, and possessing withal experience, age, and good looks, to which he replied as follows : —“ I know of no lady who can fill your bill, a good-looking woman who can teach Greek and Latin and run a high-school of one hundred pupils cannot be found. Good-looking women never study Greek.’
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Globe, Volume II, Issue 104, 30 September 1874, Page 3
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