But a second pressing duty is to help the growth of true homes among these people. This must be done largely through the girls who come under our care. For this also a separate building should be provided as a housekeeping school. It should be constructed like an ordinary dwelling-house, with such conveniences within and around it as civilized people aim to secure. It should not be too large, lest the coziness of home be lost. It should have a parlor with pictures and books. It should have a garden with flowers and shade trees. Above all it should have the most commodious and convenient kitchen and pantry that can be arranged. Let a dozen girls together occupy this house for a fortnight at a time--all those in the university taking their turn in the course of the year. Let some good woman, as near like Mrs. Cornelius or Marion Harland as can be found, be put at the head, and let her teach these girls how to cook, sweep, dust, make beds, set the table, wash the dishes, and in general how to make home as attractive as our Christian civilization knows how.
Finally let it be observed that such a university would be simply an expansion of what is now being done in our present higher institutions, and which the force of circumstances has compelled us to do. Why should we not accept it cheerfully as the mission which Providence has given us, and by a deepening and broadening process convert our present universities into something that shall bring new honor to the cause of Christian education?
The late Thomas M. Reed, of Bath, Me., bequeathed $3,000 to Bangor Theological Seminary.
Mr. Reed, of Boston, has given $5,000 to the Hampton N. and A. Institute.
Mr. Ahok has given £10,000 towards the Methodist College in Fuh Chou.
Sir Erasmus Miller has given £10,000 to endow a pathological chair at an institution in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Yale College is to receive $50,000 for a laboratory from Messrs. Thomas and Henry Sloan, in honor of their father, William Sloan.
Thomas McGraw, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has given $50,000 for the endowment of the President’s chair at Amherst College.
Mr. Holloway, of England, has conveyed to the trustees of the Enghaman Institution, for the higher education of women, £400,000 for endowment purposes.