Excerpt from The Opening Door a Story of the Woman's Movement There were no examinations at the Misses Wanley's Select School for Girls in New Haven. Such tests of knowledge might be all very well for those larger institutions where strange and wild young women from heaven knows what recesses of this continent are received, hustled through a kind of machine, and packed off home again; but the Misses Wanley's Select School was a day school instituted and maintained for the education of the daughters of New Haven's Good Families - and that is a very different tiling indeed. At the end of a term you listened (if you chose) to a brief resume of the term's work by the lady instructors, shook hands with the surviving Miss Wanley, and went home to await, with what patience God may have endowed you, the passage of a generous vacation. 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.