ents for the course in Bible Training,
and among them were a number of ordained ministers who have regular
charges. Phelps Hall was dedicated in 1892, Dr. Lyman Abbott preaching
the dedicatory sermon and General Samuel C. Armstrong delivering an
address, which was among his last public utterances.

In the next year Science Hall (now called Thrasher Hall, after the
lamented Max Bennett Thrasher) was built. This is a handsome three-story
building, with recitation-rooms and laboratories in the first two
stories, and sleeping-rooms for teachers and boys in the third story.
About this time a frame cottage with two stories and attic was built by
the school as a residence for Mr. Washington. This he occupied until the
gift of two Brooklyn friends enabled him to erect on his own lot, just
opposite the school-grounds, his present handsome brick residence, where
he dispenses a generous hospitality to the school's guests and to the
teachers of the Institute. The cottage which he vacated was afterward
utilized for a time as a library, but now is the home of Director Bruce
of the Academic Department.

Alabama Hall, already mentioned, soon proved inadequate to meet the
needs of the Woman's Department. A long one-story frame building, having
the shape of a letter T, was then erected just in the rear of Alabama
Hall. It has been used for girls' sleeping-rooms until this year, when
it was taken down to make room for a park and playground for young
women. There were also successively built for the growing demands of
this department, and in the vicinity of the original girls' building,
Willow Cottage, Hamilton Cottage, Parker Memorial Home, Huntington Hall,
and only this last year Douglass Hall. Huntington Hall is the gift of
Mrs. Collis P. Huntington. In design, finish, and appointments it is one
of the best buildings owned by the school.

Three years ago a wealthy but unostentatious gentleman, who would not
permit his name to be used in connection with his benefaction, gave the
school $25,000 for a building for girls, suggesting that the structure
should bear the name of some noted Negro. Douglass Hall was erected with
this money and named in honor of that great leader of the race,
Frederick Douglass. It is a two-story brick building, with a basement in
its central section, and contains 40 sleeping-rooms, a reception-room,
bathrooms, and a large assembly-room with a seating capacity or 450. In
this room the Dean of the Woman's Departm