Mary Lyon was a leader in women’s education in the nineteenth century. It was a time when women’s education was not considered important in the United States. The States did require each town to provide a school for children, but there were not enough teachers. Most young women were not able to continue their education. If they did, they often were not taught much except French, how to sew (缝) clothing, and music.

Mary Lyon felt that women’s education was extremely important. She believed women were teachers both in the home and in the classroom. Mary opened a school for young women in Buckland. She suggested new ways of teaching, including holding discussion groups for students.

Then, Mary began to raise money for her dream school for the higher education of women. This school would own its own property. Its finances would be the responsibility of the directors. It would not depend on any person to continue. And, the students would share in cleaning and cooking to keep costs down.

In 1837, Mary Lyo n founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. In 1893, 44 years after her death, under a state law, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary became the first college to offer women the same kind of education as men. Mary’s efforts led to the spread of higher education for women in the United States. Her influence lasted as many students from her schools went out to teach others.

A newly restored(修复的) house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, House of the Vettii, opened to the public on Tuesday.

The house likely belonged to two former slaves(奴隶) who became rich through the wine trade. The house offers visitors a look at everyday life in Pompeii. The city was buried by volcanic ash(灰) from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The restoration of the house is yet another sign of the rebirth of Pompeii.

“House of the Vettii is like the history of Pompeii and actually of Roman society within one house,” said Pompeii’s director, Gabriel Zuchtriegel. He said it shows the last period of Pompeian-made wall paintings.

The restoration of the wall paintings contained a new, better method using wax(蜡). Zuchtriegel thinks the wall paintings show the dreams, imagination and worries of the owners because they lived between these images.

And who were these owners? The Vet tis were two men—Aulus Vettius Conviva and Aulus Vettius Restitutus. Pompeii experts say they were once slaves who were later freed. It is believed that they became wealthy through the wine trade. Some think the two were brothers.

Perhaps the Vet ti us men saw their own life story in the image of Hercules who overcame great difficulties. This possibility interests Zuchtriegel.

Architect Arianna Spinosa is director of the restoration. She said it represents the perfect Pompeii home, because of both the wall paintings and the architecture.

The house was discovered in the late19th century. It was closed in 2002 for urgent restoration work. After a partial reopening in 2016, it was closed again in 2020 for the final part of the work, which included the restoration of the wall paintings, floor and structural elements.

More and more students are going abroad for their furtherstudy Do you want to know some famous colleges and universities?

Started in 1636, Harvar University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States.Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University and DartmouthCollege were opened soon after Harvard University. In the early years, these schools weare much alike. Only young men went tocollege. All the students studied the same subjects,and everyonelearned Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Little was known about science then, and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers. In 1782, Harvard University started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could receive their training in Harvard University’s law school. In 1825, besides Latin and Greek, Harvard University began teaching modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began teaching American history. As knowledge increased, Harvard University and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them.

Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. Most of thethem are made up of smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning. There’s so much to learn that one kind of school can’t offer it all.