pupil of promise allowed to leave through lack of means. For forty years this part of Judge Wheaton's plan has been carried out in spirit and to the letter.

Work Accomplished.-It is impossible to enumerate the teachers. artists, writers, and business women among the three thousand who have attended the Seminary for a greater or less length of time; there are but few who are not useful and practical in society, and most are active Christian workers. The school has special interest in certain missionaries who have been teachers or pupils; among those are Mrs. Hartwell of China; Mrs Bryant, formerly of Turkey; Mrs. Winsor and Mrs. Capron of India; Mrs. Grout of South Africa, and Mrs. Cochraine, missionary and physician in Persia.

The government of the Seminary is in a board of trustees, with president, secretary, and treasurer.

Teachers. At present the faculty is made up of the principal, with eight resident teachers, five teachers from the city, and four lecturers, comprising in all eleven ladies and seven gentlemen.

The principals of the school, with terms of service, are as follows:

MAPLEWOOD INSTITUTE, PITTSFIELD.

From Catalogue and items furnished by Rev. C. V. SPEAR, Principal.

This Institute, founded in 1841, is supported entirely by tuition fees. Buildings and Grounds.-There are four buildings occupied by the Institute for school, boarding, chapel, and gymnasium; large, well connected, and in good condition. The grounds cover six acres ; these contain besides garden, a lawn, shaded by maples and elms of forty years' growth, and ornamented with arbors, shrubbery, vases and flowers, fountain and walks.

Course of Study.-The Seminary has a preparatory, and a higher or institute department. There is also in successful operation a kindergarten. The kindergarten it is not necessary to describe. The testimony here, as elsewhere, is that pupils who have its advantages surpass all others when they enter the primary and higher schools, and never lose the early impulse thus received.

The preparatory course includes lessons in botany and Latin, in addition to the English branches of the ordinary Grammar School.

Through the higher course there run like continuous threads, natural science, mathematics, linguistic or literary studies, music and drawing; but with these, orthography, penmanship, elocution and essay writing are continued in class or in general exercises.

Much illustrative and object teaching characterizes the school; but text-books are believed by the teachers to be an essential aid to this class of students.

The Institute has a high reputation for the thorough and skilful manner in which music is taught. Students are taught harmony and the theory and history of music, with special reference to teaching.

Libraries, Cabinets, Etc.—There is an excellent library of one thousand volumes in the Institute, constantly accessible to the pupils. There are cabinet collections, with a good supply of apparatus for illustration in physics and chemistry; there is also a good collection for reference in teaching mineralogy and botany.

The furnishings for the gymnasium, especially for light gymnastics, as dumb-bells, wands, clubs, etc., are quite complete.

Expenses to Students.—Board, with tuition, is $500 per year; for day pupils the average tuition, with extras, is about $50 per year.

The government of the Institute is entirely in the control of the principal, who is also the proprietor; but there is a board of trustees also of examiners, invited for occasions.

Teachers.-The corps of teachers consists of a principal, a lady principal, and eight teachers, including the teacher of the kindergarten.

model, and in all my intercourse with my teachers and school-mates, I will try to throw my whole influence in favor of what I believe to be right and for the best good of the school." Thenceforward such student does "as she pleases" as long as she continues to show herself worthy of unlimited confidence. Those who have attained a certain other rank, have a place on the "roll of honor," and are distinguished by privileges, inferior to those awarded to the "self-gov. erned." The results are thought to be admirable.

Library, Cabinets, Etc.-There is a well-selected library, to which the students have free access. The reading-room is supplied with a good selection of papers and magazines.

A good beginning has been made in the provision of apparatus for experiments in natural philosophy and chemistry, and a cabinet of specimens to illustrate geology, mineralogy, etc. The school is supplied with maps and diagrams for use in the study of geography, physiology, zoology, and geology.

In the musical department seven square grand pianos, all new, have been provided, as also a concert grand piano, and a two-manual pipeorgan, with full set of pedals.

The art-room is ample, well lighted and pleasant; the best of models are furnished for the use of the students. A large, well-furnished room for gymnastics is provided upon the first floor.

Expenses to Pupils.-The board is $250 per year, tuition is $60 and $90 per year, in the regular courses. Special tuition in music is $60 to $150 per year. In art, $60 per year.

The government is by a board of trustees, all members of the Methodist Church.

Teachers.-The faculty consists of a principal, a preceptress, six other gentleman and seven other lady teachers, besides the lady principal of the kindergarten.

History. In 1851, Edward Lasell, professor of chemistry in Williams College, founded this school. At his early and much lamented death in 1853, George W. Briggs took charge of it, and when he resigned in 1862, Rev. Charles W. Cushing became proprietor and principal. It was thus carried forward as a private school, widely and favorably known for its earnest support of the cause of the thorough education of women, till 1873, when it was purchased by some of the leading men of Boston, who called the present principal, Chas. C. Bragdon, A. M., to its control, generously expended a large sum in refitting it throughout, and thus started it on a new career of prosperity and usefulness.