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more public way to its existence, its progress and its 

 needs. The moment seems a fitting one, for we are 

 now at the end of our first ten years of life, and the 

 close of a decade always suggests a pause, a retro- 

 spective consideration of the road over which we 

 have come, a thoughtful glance along that which lies 

 before us — in short, a review of the past and a pro- 

 vision for the future. ... In the autumn of 1885 the 

 opening term found us in our permanent home. Since 

 that time we have spent another portion of our patri- 

 mony in land adjoining the Fay House estate in 

 order to make a well-proportioned, spacious piece of 

 ground and give room for such additional buildings 

 as may be needed hereafter. On this ground we have 

 already put up two small laboratories — very inex- 

 pensive buildings in wood but quite pretty and con- 

 venient for our classes in chemistry and physics. . . . 

 The material side is, however, but a small part of the 

 story. We have to show not only that we have ad- 

 ministered our funds carefully, but that the work is 

 w^orth all and more than all that has been spent. . . . 



Our first aim was simply to give to young women 

 intending to be teachers the best intellectual outfit 

 at our command, in order that they might enter upon 

 their work well prepared. We wished also to enable 

 young women who loved study for its own sake to 

 continue their education on a wider basis after leav- 

 ing school. . . . 



A third class has been added of which we had not 

 thought in the beginning. This consists of teachers 

 — often women who have had a good deal of experi- 



