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Kids in Corvallis

Although there have always been, of course, children in Corvallis, the age that one crosses the threshold into adulthood has been consistently shifted upward. Early pioneer journals list many instances of 10-12 year old boys, orphaned or abandoned by their parents, being expected to earn their own livelihoods. Child labor was the norm. Young girls had it a little easier until they reached their early teens. The census shows an almost total lack of teen girls in the city, as the youngest were turned into child brides for homesteaders in rural areas. With the town's founder being a notorious slavery advocate, the early residents were dominantly from the South, especially Missouri, where education was the private domain of the slavers' aristocracy. Schools in the Corvallis area were equally under the control of a single patron, with other parents expected to pay for their own children's attendance, as well as to provide room and board for the teacher. Punishment was corporal, and one pioneer cited small boys being hung by their thumbs in the classroom of John Horner, for whom the Horner museum was named. The same pioneer described a young girl in his class being beaten by Horner, a young girl he later married. Since no consequences were forthcoming, one is left to assume that such practices were neither abnormal nor discouraged.

The introduction of the university changed much over time. Early students usually already had an adult history and were simply refining their skills. Gradually, this gave way as the influence of Ivy League schools, which were essentially a means of keeping the younger set of the idle rich entertained until the parents aged and relinquished control of the family wealth, introduced an element of "adult child care" into the college after the turn of the twentieth century. This, in turn, imbued the university as a whole with a welcome element of frivolity

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