August 1885 issue of the
Oread, student newspaper of Shimer College during the late
Seminary period of the school's history. Digitized by Northern Illinois University.
This issue begins with an essay by
Winona Sawyer on Florida.
Then a women's seminary located in Mount Carroll, Illinois, Shimer is today a very small liberal arts college in Chicago that follows
a Great Books curriculum and operates the nation's longest-running
college early entrance program.