pecimens illustrating conchology. Where is the cabinet?
A large part of it I have never seen. It is kept in the boxes in which
it was sent to the academy. Where is the scientific apparatus? Where is
it?

"The rooms for the pupils are not large enough. Two students live by day
and by night in one small chamber. The passages between the rooms are
too narrow. The recitation rooms are too small and not well ventilated.
The teachers have no adequate support, and could readily obtain much
larger salaries for far less work in other institutions. For such
reasons the academy asks for an enlarged endowment. It needs $150,000
for its new buildings. Thus far it has received promise of only $36,000.
If it receive a generous increase of funds it will flourish; if it does
not, it will not flourish as it should. Other institutions will attract
its scholars. We cannot expect that future instructors will have a
spirit of self-denial equal to that of its present and past instructors.

"After his 7th of March speech, Daniel Webster said to the Bostonians,
'You have conquered your climate, you have now nothing to do but to
conquer your prejudices.' He meant that New Englanders had overcome the
laws of nature, which had provided them with little except ice and
granite; and nothing was left for them to conquer except their
prejudices against the system of slavery. Now the teachers of Abbot
Academy have conquered themselves, and there is nothing left for them to
subdue except the laws of nature. They cannot subdue these laws. They
cannot resist the attractions which other institutions have received
from large funds, commodious dormitories, and suitable lecture-rooms and
halls. The two Misses McKeen have devoted a high degree of skill and
energy to the upbuilding of this institution; but they have had a
superior ancestry. They inherited strength and fortitude. They descended
from the sturdy men and women who settled Londonderry, New Hampshire.

"James McKeen of Londonderry was connected by marriage with James
McGregor, the first minister of that town, who was a remarkable man. He
was asked to leave his New Hampshire parish and go to the First
Presbyterian Church in New York city. He declined. Londonderry was a
more promising field for usefulness than New York. Londonderry has since
succumbed. By the aid of the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, New
York has gone ahead.

"A traveller walking through Fifth Avenue and then through the roads