of
Londonderry can detect the superiority of New York with the naked eye.
Unless Abbot Academy receive a larger and richer endowment than it now
has, it will be to other institutions what the New Hampshire township is
to the commercial emporium of our land.

"Why not allow our academy to decline? What special reasons are there
for giving a new impulse to it? We ask for our new buildings because our
academy is the oldest incorporated institution in the land for the
higher culture of young ladies exclusively. Its age gives it a title to
support. The antiquity of a school is a rich treasure to it. Scores of
matrons, teachers, missionaries, have been trained in this school, and
have performed signal services in our Western settlements, in
Constantinople, in Japan, and in other distant parts of the world. The
affections of these pupils are still entwined around this ancient
academy. Again, we need our new buildings as monuments to the past
services of teachers who have adorned and honored the school. Their
example of faithful work and of exemplary self-denial ought to receive a
visible and fitting memorial.

"Still another reason is that the endowment for which we ask will
encourage future instructors to imitate the example of their
predecessors. I have been conversant with many schools, I have not known
one in which the principles of mental and moral philosophy, of the
English and the Latin language, and of the fine arts have been more
thoroughly and faithfully studied than in Abbot Academy. We do not
expect there will ever be a theatre or an opera in the neighborhood of
our academy; but we do expect that if we can obtain the pecuniary aid
which we need, our school will be the resort of ladies who will devote
themselves with zeal and care to the study of science, and more than all
to the study of the word of God."

Professor Churchill then spoke in a very forcible and interesting manner
of the aims of Abbot Academy, its wish to emphasize the home as well as
the school. In a second article upon the institution it is hoped his
remarks will be given in detail in connection with a more extended
consideration of the aim to which he referred. Mr. Hartwell, for Messrs.
Hartwell and Richardson, then explained the principal points of their
plans, drawings of which were hung upon the walls. He concluded by
expressing the heartiest interest in the academy and a most earnest wish
for the success of the good plans in its behalf. Mr.